Freud

  • 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

    She found her Dr. Feelgood once. But do you ever get a second one?
  • 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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