In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...

An experiment found that people can push an unwanted memory out of their minds, lending credence to Sigmund Freud's theory of repression. In the study, college students who had memorized pairs of ...

Dr. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, is as famous now as he ever was. His diagnostic language has become part of our everyday conversation so that we talk freely about things like the ...

Repression is a defense mechanism in which people push difficult or unacceptable thoughts out of conscious awareness. This idea launched an enduring controversy in the field of psychology. The notion ...

I’m sort of surprised that you dismiss the work of Freud as mere quackery in your recent column about B.F. Skinner. No doubt Freud’s theories and the therapeutic effectiveness of psychoanalysis remain ...

Repression can be thought of as "motivated forgetting:" the active but unconscious forgetting of unacceptable drives, emotions, ideas, or memories. Unsurprisingly, repression is often confused with ...

The concept of a “Freudian slip” is that when a person misspeaks, they inadvertently reveal repressed or secret desires. The theory is well known, but there is little — if any — scientific proof that ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston (THE CONVERSATION) In 1990, George Franklin ...