Sigmund Freud

All coed camps can be like this. But Jewish ones were different.

American artists were instrumental in propagating the false narrative of Thanksgiving, a deliberate erasure of violence against Indigenous peoples.

Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.

A new book tells the stories of four interwar writers who laid the groundwork for modern journalism.

John Gunther’s “Death Be Not Proud” defied a nation’s reluctance to describe personal loss.

A spectre is haunting houses—the spectre of possession.

The crisis that Federici identified in the 1970s has reached a boiling point.

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."

Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.

Joshua Cohen imagines how Philip Roth would review his own biographer.

What if chairs could shift our state of consciousness, transporting the imagination into distant landscapes and ecstatic experiences, both religious and erotic?

Reactionary leaders are invoking communism as a way of attacking the left, says author and activist Richard Seymour.

Vivian Gornick’s and Jodi Dean’s books mine a lost history of comradeship, determination, and intimacy.

Mo Rocca on the struggle to depathologize homosexuality.

Fifty years after Stonewall, the gay-panic defense seems absurd. But, for decades, it had the power of law.

Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself. What, exactly, constitutes a mental disorder?

The war created a new world, an alternate reality distinct from what most people before 1914 expected their lives to be.

How an autism diagnosis became both a clinical label and an identity; a stigma to be challenged and a status to be embraced.

John Gregory Bourke’s "Scatalogic Rites of All Nations" and the American West.

Our first three years are usually a blur and we don’t remember much before age seven. What are we hiding from ourselves?