Sigmund Freud is one of the most influential figures in the history of psychology. Freud was born in Freiberg. He suffered from many health problems as a child, including cerebrovascular ailments and ...

Sigmund Freud described the mind as an iceberg with the unconscious mind far exceeding the visible part above the surface. Source: Courtesy of Damian Pang, incorporating images from Annie Spratt ...

In his “Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis” (1916-17), Sigmund Freud brought the sad news that humanity has had “to endure from the hand of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love.” ...

You already speak the Freudian language. Words you use without thinking come from one man, and so does the talking cure, the foundation of nearly every psychotherapy practiced today. Many of his ...

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 ...