Psychoanalysis in the News

by Molly Merson, MFT

Should You Care About Your Unconscious Biases? Freud developed the concept of the unconscious, and this article dives into how the term is used today as a stand-in for the implicit, unknown biases we hold as well as how we examine them.

The Way Psychologists Talk About Sex Reveals Exactly What They Get Wrong About Our Inner Lives. In terms of sexuality and its impact on human psyches, development, and relationships, Freud was really onto something—even if his datasets would not stand up to what is required of research today. But that also meant he was free to develop creative understandings of human experience and sexuality that can help contemporary sex therapists and researchers today.

Freud the Socialist, Freud the Revolutionary. What might a radical rereading of Freud as a revolutionary hold for us in this age?