As his anguish grew more and more intense by the mid 1890s, Freud turned to the therapy he had invented to help others to ease his own suffering. He subjected his tumultuous thoughts and feelings to ...

In 1897 Sigmund Freud began his famous course of self-analysis. He had already noticed that dreams played an important role in his analysis of neurotic and "hysterical" patients. As he encouraged them ...

The word “dream” is often used to convey longing or aspiration in a metaphorical sense: In your dreams. Dream on. A dream come true. But a dream can also serve as an avenue that enables us to achieve ...

When Sigmund Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams” was first published in 1899, he initially believed it a flop — that it had failed to make any impact — and it took nearly a decade before a second ...

Today, when the official sleep researchers have written off dreams as no more than meaningless froth, generated through the random bombardment of cortex by the thoughtless brainstem, it was very nice ...

Cinema’s first serious treatment was the work of several basket cases. The original script by Sartre would have run to five hours. When John Huston asked him to cut it, he submitted one of eight hours ...