In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...

An experiment found that people can push an unwanted memory out of their minds, lending credence to Sigmund Freud's theory of repression. In the study, college students who had memorized pairs of ...

Dr. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, is as famous now as he ever was. His diagnostic language has become part of our everyday conversation so that we talk freely about things like the ...

Belknap, 420 pp., $35 AT THE END of the nineteenth century, Sigmund Freud–ever anxious to present an overarching, universal explanation for mental unrest–suggested that “repressed memories” of ...

What was life like for the father of psychoanalysis who made a profession of analyzing the lives of others? Insights into how Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis whose work on human sexual ...

Repression is a defense mechanism in which people push difficult or unacceptable thoughts out of conscious awareness. This idea launched an enduring controversy in the field of psychology. The notion ...

Early in my art history education, I became fixated on Freud. It happened during the summer of 1977, when somebody gave me a browned copy of The Interpretation of Dreams. I read it like a mystery ...

It is perhaps surprising that, in clinical settings, phobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are often not clearly differentiated. This is in part because patients frequently present with ...