Selected by Andrew Nagorski, the author of the forthcoming ‘Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom.’ ...

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist, was the most talked about and debated man of his times. His thoughts and ideas created a stir among the 19th and 20th century medical professionals and even ...

The tale of Freud’s last days is a strange one, and rarely told, perhaps because it may not reflect well on his state of mind. What was a genius of psychology and a Jew doing writing a book that ...

Freud would pour everything he had learned into the book, which would signal a shift in the way men and women imagined their inner lives. He would call his book The Interpretation of Dreams ...

The first lines of the book are dedicated to the Wednesday meetings on Berggasse Street, number 19, in Vienna, filled with smoke from so many cigars, led by a Freud who had already published The ...

“Becoming Freud,” by the British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, is short for a biography—less than two hundred pages—and it contains no startling revelations. But, in its own way, it’s an ...

Freud: I completed the dream book. ... The group gave themselves the name The Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. Within 20 years, there were dozens like it throughout the world.