News tagged with sigmund freud


Suicide in children and adolescents

As part of suicide prevention, evaluation of suicide risk should be carried out on a regular basis in order to attempt early intervention. The EU-funded Suicidality: Treatment Occurring in Paediatrics Programme was developed ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Buenos Aires, city of tango and psychoanalysis

Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital known for its tango bars, has another claim to fame: it may well be the world's capital of psychoanalysis.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Aug 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Freud's theory of unconscious conflict linked to anxiety symptoms in new brain research

An experiment that Sigmund Freud could never have imagined 100 years ago may help lend scientific support for one of his key theories, and help connect it with current neuroscience.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jun 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

What was B.F. Skinner really like? A new study parses his traits

March 20th marks the birthday of famed behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner, who would have turned 108 today. Besides Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner was the most famous and perhaps the most influential psychologist of the 20th ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Self-inflicted blinding not linked to Oedipus complex, but untreated psychosis

The self-inflicted removal of one or both eyes, which has traditionally been attributed to sexual guilt, is, in fact, caused by untreated psychotic illness, such as schizophrenia, reveal researchers in the British Journal of ...

Ophthalmology created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0