psychoanalysis

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Can psychoanalysis make sense of our most insidious urges?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

This idea echoes a long-standing hypothesis in sleep research -- and even in classical psychoanalysis -- that dreams may act as "guardians of sleep."

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

To hear them engaging in psychoanalysis you could be forgiven for thinking that they've spent as much prep-time for Rome in therapy as they have on the training ground.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

Practitioners in the Jungian tradition pursue many treatment courses—dreamwork, psychoanalysis, interpretation of the patient’s art.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2025

“With all you know about psychoanalysis, you’re going to ruin whatever’s left in that head of hers. All she wants is to retire and sleep.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole