Is transference harmful for Alzheimer’s patients? According to PsycologyToday.com, the concept of transference emerged from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic practice in the 1890s. Freud believed that ...

When I meet someone new and say that I’m a psychoanalyst, they often say, “Oh, you’re a Freudian.” Well, no, not exactly. Psychoanalytic thinking has come a long way since Freud, and there are now ...

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 ...

IT WAS Freud who insisted that the analyst must be a veiled figure. In that way, Freud made himself available for therapeutic purposes; the patient saw in him that character, or tangle of characters, ...