Oct 20th, 2008 · Where Three Roads Meet, the new novel from British psychologist and fiction writer Sally Vickers, is set in the spring of 1923, and features an invented encounter between the ailing Sigmund Freud and a blind, ancient soothsayer.
Jul 28th, 2007 · Dr. Albert Ellis was sometimes called the Lenny Bruce of psychotherapy: He was funny, profane and controversial. His theories on cognitive therapy, first presented in the mid-1950s, challenged the thinking of Sigmund Freud. By the time he died this week at age 93, Ellis had become considered by many to be as influential as Freud.
May 5th, 2006 · Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, started his career as a scientist, studying basic brain biology. Saturday is the 150th anniversary of Freud's birth. In honor of the occasion, the New York Academy of Medicine opens a new exhibit of Freud's scientific drawings.
May 4th, 2006 · Sigmund Freud was born 150 years ago this week. One of his greatest contributions -- the talking cure -- is used less these days in favor of psychiatric drugs. Commentator Lennard Davis would like to defend Freud, and talk therapy. Lennard Davis is a professor of Literature, Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where is also the director of Project Biocultures.
Apr 22nd, 2005 · In the 1920s and '30s, Sigmund Freud's nephew Edward Bernays used his uncle's ideas -- sometimes to Freud's consternation -- to help create the new field of public relations. His influence can be felt today, including the very notion of a hearty breakfast.