There’s always much to talk about when it comes to Freud’s talking cure. One way to begin is to acknowledge that Sigmund Freud did not coin the term. Nor did he treat, much less cure, the pseudonymous ...

Anna Freud (1895-1982), Sigmund Freud's youngest daughter and only child to follow him into psychoanalysis, died 30 years ago this year. As I mentioned in a recent post, I was privileged to be ...

Later life In 1895, inspired by the case of a patient called Bertha Pappenheim (‘Anna O.’), Freud published the seminal Studies on Hysteria with his friend and colleague Josef Breuer. Following the ...