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

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 ...

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 ...

I am in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, surrounded by psychoanalysts. At moments, if I half close my eyes, I can imagine I’m in some European city, circa 1930: “The Kleinians have ...

The inventor of psychoanalysis attracted failed scientists and sexual opportunists, and built his legacy upon myth and error. By Henry Marsh When I was very young, my ...

Lacanian psychoanalysis stems from a radical re-reading of Freudian theory, emphasizing the role of language and social structures in constituting human subjectivity. Central to his theoretical ...

With one in four teenage girls being depressed, it’s clear that there is no shortage of people needing help. It needn’t cost the earth – and it certainly worked for me Was I mentally ill? I suppose I ...

Henry Miller, the witty and now dead neurologist from Newcastle, said that one of the great challenges for 21st century medical historians would be to explain the obsession with psychoanalysis in the ...

Born on this day in 1938, Sudhir Kakar, the “father of Indian psychoanalysis”, is celebrated for bringing a distinct “Indianness” to the field. Psychoanalysis is a theory of mind and a clinical ...