"On the one hand, psychoanalysis is practical in the sense that there is an attempt to solve a problem, or to cure somebody, or at least to address their suffering. But the other thing that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I am continuing my ongoing series about ...

Psychoanalysis revolves around the belief you have unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories that affect how you behave and see the world. It's a type of mental health therapy. It's also a ...

In “Monogamy,” a collection of a hundred and twenty-one aphorisms on coupling and uncoupling, the psychoanalyst and prolific writer Adam Phillips suggests that the faithful and the promiscuous aren’t ...

Children with problems or problem children? That is the question often asked by parents and teachers alike. If a child is naughty in school, are they a “bad” child or are they facing mental ill health ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Once in a psychoanalysis session, I cried and laughed at the same time. The energies of each separate, ...

A new film on the doctor is weak on the facts. But it marks a year in which we’ve turned to his theories to comprehend suffering – and to get treatment Against the background of the always-on sonic ...

Freud’s work changed fiction and philosophy as well as ideas of psychology and sexuality. From Michel Foucault to Philip Roth, here is some great writing about the talking cure What defines the great ...

Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis - but now, is he just a poppet?(poppet with a camera/ Flickr CC) Psychoanalysis has been widely criticised and largely obscured from the mainstream treatment of ...

Louise Bourgeois, "The Destruction of the Father" (1974), latex, plaster, wood, fabric, and red light (© The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society [ARS], NY; photo by Ron ...