Sigmund Freud's theories suggest that human behavior is driven by unconscious motives, early childhood experiences, and repressed sexual and aggressive drives. He introduced a structural model of the ...

Freud argued that favorite children grow into confident "conquerors." What does modern research say about the impact of favoritism?

What if Sigmund Freud was onto something that modern neuroscience is only now beginning to explain? A new paper argues that ...

Recently I answered a few questions about my new book, Mourning Freud, the first volume in a new series, "Psychoanalytic Horizons," published by Bloomsbury. 1) How would you describe your book in one ...

We use Freud’s words every day when we discuss the unconscious. However, Freud’s legacy was built around the same tactics used by the high-control groups we know as cults.

Sigmund Freud’s 800-page book on dreams introduced a new way of thinking about the mind that reverberated through the 20th ...

A new article published in the neurocognitive journal Entropy argues that Sigmund Freud's model of the mind, as well as more recent psychoanalytic theory, has similarities with the leading model in ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American An ironic juxtaposition has me dwelling once ...

Psychology is a scientific field focused on studying the way the human mind works and how it influences behavior and personality, according to the Cambridge Dictionary. The field is not definite ...

LOS ANGELES — “Art is a way back to reality,” Sigmund Freud once said, and it is a somber reality, at least where nudes and portraits by his grandson, artist Lucien Freud, are concerned. About 110 of ...