New research has studied the controversial Freudian theory that Hysteria, a disorder resulting in severe neurological symptoms such as paralysis or seizures, arises in response to psychological stress ...

To the Times:Every news program last weekend on radio and TV, and the front page of every newspaper, focused on the latest incident of indiscriminate killing by a mentally ill person. Actually, every ...

Two Harvard psychologists have authored a study showing that suppressed thoughts manifest themselves in dreams —the first scientific confirmation of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dreams. The study, which ...

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 ...

Readers of our March 27 report on Sigmund Freud's theories were split on the value of his legacy. Said one, "Freud was a true genius and a pioneer ... who changed our world for the better." Another ...

Every critic knows that readers love a spirited hatchet job, whether or not the author being chopped is one whose work they’ve hated—or even read. Much of the public seems to possess an ambient belief ...