During the next 6 years, the book would sell only 351 copies. It would take two decades before Freud achieved the fame he had always imagined. But, later in life, he still viewed this book as his ...

The couch was at the other side of the room, near the windows overlooking the garden. It was a completely flat divan, rather low, and with a single pillow on which Miss Freud would place an embroi ...

In his “Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis” (1916-17), Sigmund Freud brought the sad news that humanity has had “to endure from the hand of science two great outrages upon its naive ...

Freud had two half-brothers some 20 years older ... He found he could get patients to talk just by putting them in a relaxing position (the couch) and encouraging them to say whatever came into ...

This week we recommend a new exhibition in the home of Sigmund Freud, an action comedy about a man who feels no pain and the ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a couch, painted by British artist Lucian Freud, set a record Tuesday night for the most money paid for a painting by a ...

The couch on which Freud’s patients lay became identified with psychoanalysis itself. He shipped it to London when he left Vienna. Ellen Jane Rogers Sigmund Freud waited too long. Throughout the ...

As WH Auden famously wrote, Freud is not a person but “a whole climate of opinion”. In this context, On the Couch, edited by Andrew Blauner, is a noteworthy contribution. Blauner has assembled ...

This photo taken on March 28, 2025 shows Sigmund Freud's wedding ring at the Freud Museum in London, Britain. The Freud Museum was the final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The ...