In the late 1800s scientists began to interrogate the neurological basis of dreams. That changed in Sigmund Freud’s time but ...

That’s for good reason: in his work as a neuroscientist, the professor was the first to work out which brain mechanisms are responsible for dreaming, in 1997. His results were closer to Freud ...

In 1886, Freud returned to Vienna, opened a private practice specializing in nervous and brain disorders, and married. He tried hypnotism with his hysteric and neurotic patients, but gradually ...

The study – published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry – provides the first evidence of brain mechanisms to explain Freud’s classical observation that exaggerated guilt and self-blame are ...

Freud's views of women were rooted in a culture in which there were enormous prejudices about the capacities of women. Their sexuality baffled him. Freud would later say that women were largely "a ...