Freud

Fear factors Fear factors
Allen Shawn -- son of William, brother of Wallace -- is afraid of almost everything, but not of writing a memoir of his phobic life.
Couch surfing Couch surfing
She found her Dr. Feelgood once. But do you ever get a second one?
Dreamy study aid Dreamy study aid
New research suggests that people learn while they sleep.
The shape of dreams
Freud called them the royal road to the unconscious. A hundred years later, the debate over what they mean goes on.
Chains of love
Always fall for losers? According to some evolutionary psychiatrists, the brain has little control over choices of the heart.
Lust and bullets at Rumba Beach
If Chaucer had retired to a trailer in Margaritaville, would he spend his evenings watching Fellini movies? He might.
The mysterious mind
One author doubts that we will ever explain and control the brain.
"Mumford"
The movies' first sane therapist talks a big game in Lawrence Kasdan's winning comedy.
Risky business
Albert Einstein and Evel Knievel were both looking for the same high.
Interpretation of scenes
"Besieged" unfolds on the surface as a duet between two dislocated souls, but director Bernardo Bertolucci can't resist repeating his Freudian refrain.
Guns and penises
American society's problem isn't firearms -- it's the sexually dysfunctional men and women who abuse them.
The power of positive shrinking
Is the new optimistic movement in psychology a theoretical breakthrough or a professional survival tactic?
Sex and the 7-year-old boy
Parenting manuals don't tell you how to handle it when your son has a crush on you.

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