Is transference harmful for Alzheimer’s patients? According to PsycologyToday.com, the concept of transference emerged from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic practice in the 1890s. Freud believed that ...

Sigmund Freud hailed the phenomenon of transference as fundamental to the process of dynamic psychotherapy. Freud depicted transference as a false connection between patient’s memories of a past ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. When I meet someone new and ...

I n the midst of the First World War, Sigmund Freud delivered a famous series of lectures at the Vienna Psychiatric Clinic. For an audience of both clinicians and laypeople, the father of ...

You can’t understand why Hillary Clinton’s primary campaign fell short without understanding a fundamental psychoanalytic concept. On the eve of the Texas and Ohio primaries, Hillary Clinton conveyed ...

When I meet someone new and say that I’m a psychoanalyst, they often say, “Oh, you’re a Freudian.” Well, no, not exactly. Psychoanalytic thinking has come a long way since Freud, and there are now ...