In a 1909 letter, Sigmund Freud wrote to fellow psychoanalyst Carl Jung that he had encountered a “neurotic” patient whose sexual inactivity and inability to finish tasks was reminiscent of Leonardo ...

As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves ...

Please be advised that I am in possession of previously undiscovered secret documents that offer a new perspective on the life of Sigmund Freud. I enclose some samples for your perusal: Originally, ...

Once upon a time, great psychological thinkers bestrode the earth. William James, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Fred Skinner, ...

LONDON — Throughout the city, 2024 was a year of art and other institutions centering women in their programming. With Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists, the Freud Museum, located in the ...

Freud turns to humanity's archaic past to explain the longing for an "exalted father." Narrator: Freud called religion an illusion. For over 30 years, he developed this idea in his enormous body of ...

Flyda and Arvid, a psychedelic Lucian Freud self-portrait featuring his wife, Kathleen “Kitty” Garman, will go to auction at Sotheby’s London on November 17 after being held in a private collection ...

Sigmund Freud has been out of the scientific mainstream for so long, it's easy to forget that in the early-20th century he was regarded as a towering man of science--not, as he is remembered today, as ...

“Becoming Freud,” by the British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, is short for a biography—less than two hundred pages—and it contains no startling revelations. But, in its own way, it’s an audacious book ...

Sigmund Freud is credited with being the father of psychoanalysis. His work involved treating pathologies believed to have originated in the psyche. He was also deeply interested in the effects of ...