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May 22, 2025
Rachel Connolly
Jamieson Webster’s Elegant Meditation on How We Breathe
A psychoanalyst trains her attention on the act of breathing, and it no longer seems quite so simple.
June 28, 2024
MagazineHannah Zeavin
The Woman Behind Freud’s First Case Study
The case of Anna O. showed that psychoanalysis worked. Did Freud tamper with it?
September 1, 2022
MagazinePatrick Blanchfield
The Last Days of Sigmund Freud
Danger surrounded Freud in Nazi-occupied Austria. Why did it take him so long to see it?
May 1, 2020
MagazineSophie Pinkham
How Vivian Gornick Reinvigorated Political Writing
Her most criticized book, “The Romance of American Communism,” has become a modern classic.
June 1, 2017
Warren Breckman
The Fortunes of Freud
The prestige that psychoanalysis gained in the midcentury was also its downfall.
November 5, 2013
Meredith Turits
Therapy: The Cause of, and Solution to, All of Writers' Problems
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Sigmund Freud
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October 6, 1952
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