"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 ...

Historically, the discipline has often flourished during periods of political crisis, offering tools to confront trauma, repression and authoritarianism — from fascist Europe to Argentina’s “dirty war ...

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 ...

In times of political upheaval, state-sponsored violence and collective trauma, psychoanalysis offers tools for making sense ...

All living things - plants as well as animals - have life cycles that are finite. Human beings are no exception. What makes us different is self-awareness: we remember a past and anticipate a future.

I'm increasingly impressed with how radical a thinker Freud was, now that I appreciate what it takes to excavate anxiety-provoking experience for the purposes of understanding. Freud identified with ...

Edge Hill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Children with problems or problem children? That is the question often asked by parents and teachers alike. If a child is ...