In a 1909 letter, Sigmund Freud wrote to fellow psychoanalyst Carl Jung that he had encountered a “neurotic” patient whose sexual inactivity and inability to finish tasks was reminiscent of Leonardo ...

This biography represents a substantial, if not groundbreaking, addition to the extensive body of work on the father of psychoanalysis. The very fact that Sigmund Freud’s life has inspired a deluge of ...

Review of Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst. By Adam Phillips. Yale University Press. 178 pp. $25. Although he wrote speculative accounts about the lives of Moses, Michelangelo, ...

After the Nazi takeover of Austria, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and other Jewish doctors became targets. Freud, center, poses here with his daughter Mathilde and the Welsh psychoanalyst Ernest Jones ...