Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Action (CPIA) is a blog—by Executive Editor David Braucher, Ph.D., with Associate Editors Sue Kolod, Ph.D. and Melissa Ritter, Ph.D.—under the auspices of Contemporary ...

Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis - but now, is he just a poppet?(poppet with a camera/ Flickr CC) Psychoanalysis has been widely criticised and largely obscured from the mainstream treatment of ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the marketplace of ideas, one in which the concept of one’s “personal brand” has become all too commonplace, debate swirls regarding the contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis. As a way of ...

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 ...

The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture (CSPC) is a trans-disciplinary center housed within the University at Buffalo English Department and supported by the department in conjunction ...

Art and psychoanalysis have had a very long and intense relationship over the years, and it makes sense that these two fields would be drawn to one another. Critics have long looked at psychoanalysis ...

“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 ...

I’ve always found psychoanalysts slightly awkward interview subjects. This is perhaps unsurprising when it comes to men and women who must be somewhat of a blank slate. Talking about oneself ...

Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, is also a haven for psychoanalysis, a method of psychology invented by Sigmund Freud. It's common for expatriates and natives alike to take advantage of the ...