Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I am continuing my ongoing series about ...

In 1809, the 21-year-old Arthur Schopenhauer matriculated at the University of Göttingen, nominally to study medicine and ...

From the strict dairy-free and wheat-free diet that actress Jenny McCarthy details in her best-selling book, "Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism," to mercury detoxification and ...

"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 ...

It is probably impossible to watch Sophie Robert's extraordinary compelling documentary The Wall: Psychoanalysis Put to the Test for Autism, and not be outraged. Robert's brilliantly crafted polemic, ...

Psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a way of treating longstanding psychological problems that is based on the belief behaviours have underlying drivers which may be unrecognised and ...

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise,” Sigmund Freud once said. Psychoanalysis, the field that he founded, is taking the opposite approach. The American Psychoanalytic Association ...

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 ...

Postcolonial critical psychology and psychoanalysis constitutes an integrative field that interrogates how colonial histories and power relations shape individual and collective subjectivities. It ...

SOME fifty years ago, when Freud’s views on human psychology were first made known, they were given a rather hostile and contemptuous welcome by all professions, sacred and profane. The label of ...

Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel observed that adults, despite their responsibilities, retain a childlike need for ...