Freud’s insights into trauma, repression and the unconscious are finding new relevance and millions of followers.

Psychoanalysis is experiencing a revival globally, fueled by cultural shifts and political unrest. Once marginalized by behavioral psychology and pharmaceuticals, it now resonates with those resisting ...

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 ...

Since its founding by Freud in the 1890s, psychoanalysis has been concerned primarily with the uniqueness of each individual and has gathered data mostly from within the treatment relationship. This ...

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 ...

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 the ...

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 ...

THE infection by psycho-analysis of the neighbouring fields of science—notably that of anthropology, folklore, and sociology—has been a very rapid and somewhat inflammatory process. The votaries of ...

Explore the resurgence of Freud's psychoanalysis amidst political turmoil and AI, revealing its relevance in today's complex world.