Psychoanalysis is a procedure for the treatment of mental and emotional disturbances. Sigmund Freud originated and developed psychoanalysis as a result of his individual researches into the causes of hysteria, one of the common forms of mental illness...

From the perspective of critical masculinity studies, psychoanalytic accounts of gender formation offer one great benefit, which is that they are indeed accounts. Despite Freud’s easily misconstrued assertions equating anatomy with destiny, in...

Psychoanalysis is a form of psychotherapy used by qualified psychotherapists to treat patients who have a range of mild to moderate chronic life problems. It is related to a specific body of theories about the relationships between conscious and...

Carl Jung understood 'masculinity' as a form of consciousness—an essential, instinctive way of assessing and relating that he defined intuitively through the term 'Logos', by which he meant discrimination, judgment and insight into the meaning of...

Constructs Psychosexual development Psychosocial development Conscious • Preconscious • Unconscious Id, ego, and super-ego Libido • Drive Transference • Sublimation • Resistance Important Figures Sigmund Freud • Carl Jung Alfred Adler •...

For Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, the seeds of his personality were sown at the earliest stages of his life.At least that's what he would have us think.Seven decades after his death, opinions vary on how well (or poorly) Freud's theories have held up....

Albert Ellis, founder of a renowned psychotherapy institute who is considered by many to be among the most influential figures in modern psychology, died Tuesday, the institute announced. He was 93.The cause of death was kidney and heart failure, The New York Times reported on...

He came to psychology almost by happenstance, after friends began turning to him for guidance. But Albert Ellis would become one of the most important figures in modern psychology, once ranked by his peers as more influential than Sigmund Freud.Ellis, who helped establish cognitive behavior...

"The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Place on Earth" (TWELVE, 325 pages, $25.99), by Eric Weiner: Part philosophy, part psychoanalysis, part cultural studies lesson, Eric Weiner's "Geography of Bliss" searches out the "where" of the happiness question.His premise: to travel to...

Essay presents a psychoanalytic criticism as formed by Sigmund Freud.