Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality defines the unconscious mind as an accumulation of feelings, thoughts, ...

Sigmund Freud described the mind as an iceberg with the unconscious mind far exceeding the visible part above the surface. Source: Courtesy of Damian Pang, incorporating images from Annie Spratt ...

Writer Russ Juskalian's story on cryptomnesia had a lot of readers talking—specifically, about our use of "unconscious" over "subconscious" when discussing the practice of copying other people's work ...

Dusk starts to settle across the landscape. The dirt trail, lit by the last licks of sunlight, winds through the trees. The ...

Your brain doesn't like to keep secrets. Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, have shown that writing down secrets in a journal or telling a doctor your secrets actually decreases the level of ...

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 ...

A disconnect between psychoanalytic theorists and academic psychologists has persisted in no small part because of the different core assumptions that the two groups make about how to study the mind.

Habits can be great. As Wendy Wood writes in Good Habits, Bad Habits, “We find patterns of behavior that allow us to reach goals. We repeat what works, and when actions are repeated in a stable ...

Commitment often evokes a sense of dedication and focus. It's a word most associated with relationships (maybe career goals.) But how committed you are to something ultimately impacts the outcome.