but not have a mind? How do we make sense of claims like “plants are conscious” and “Freud revealed the dynamics of the unconscious mind”? This blog helps sort through these questions ...

Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud focused on understanding the importance of the unconscious and conscious mind. While the focus of much of the research in psychology shifted to purely observable ...

Far from being a malign adjunct to the conscious mind, the unconscious is responsible for all sorts of important stuff. It is smart and it is often running the show. Still, that doesn’t mean we ...

Because automatic memory is by nature unconscious, we often don’t notice how essential it is for most of our everyday ...

Because automatic memory is by nature unconscious, we often don't notice ... we would be far less likely to survive those ...

Unlike racism or sexism — a conscious discrimination against ... against others — it simply means that your unconscious mind finds it easy to make certain associations that may reveal ...

My ideal client, whether an individual or a couple, struggles with anxiety, depression, or substance use and seeks a deeper understanding of their conscious/unconscious mind and nervous system's ...

As his anguish grew more and more intense by the mid 1890s, Freud turned to the therapy he had invented to help others to ease his own suffering. He subjected his tumultuous thoughts and feelings ...