Let me begin this post by saying that I find value in almost every approach to psychotherapy that I have encountered. I believe that, with respect to eating disorders, an integrative mindset -- one ...

This article is co-authored by Chiara Staal, a psychologist in the Netherlands (first author). Psychoanalysis has, to put it mildly, fallen out of favor. Whereas the ideas of Sigmund Freud and his ...

The concept of a “Freudian slip” is that when a person misspeaks, they inadvertently reveal repressed or secret desires. The theory is well known, but there is little — if any — scientific proof that ...

Psychoanalytic studies of criminal motivation generally have followed the salient trends within the historical development of psychoanalytic theory. The first trend, initiated by Sigmund Freud in an ...

Through a close reading of Klein and Irigaray's work on the mother-daughter relationship via the Electra myth, Jacobs diagnoses what she considers a fundamental problem in psychoanalytic and feminist ...