Joshua Kendall asks whether Sigmund Freud is due for a comeback (“No one respects Freud anymore. Is that a mistake?” Ideas, Aug. 16). The more useful question here in Massachusetts is whether anyone ...

Joshua Kendall is the author of several biographies, including “Trudeau and Doonesbury: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News Into Art.” He also writes frequently about psychology. In April of 1956, ...

To announce that you are embarking on a course of psychoanalytic training today is tantamount, in many quarters, to admitting that you plan to treat your patients using astrology or by parsing the ...

The human brain is a prediction engine. That’s according to a relatively new neuroscience model called “the prediction paradigm.” Experts at the University of Oslo in Norway write that the brain ...

It’s hard to fathom that what once started as a modernized Western about a powerful Montana ranching family has expanded into five different television series and a history as expansive as the MCU.

What if Sigmund Freud was onto something that modern neuroscience is only now beginning to explain? A new paper argues that today's leading theory of the brain—as a prediction machine constantly ...

Oliver Tree’s family has established a new foundation, as per the late singer’s wishes, to provide grants to young artists. Just two weeks after Tree died in a helicopter crash in Brazil at the age of ...

Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams late in 1899. It has outsized importance among his writings, as arguably the founding document of psychoanalysis. In his own estimation, the book ...

Oliver Tree’s family is honoring his “final wish” to start a foundation dedicated to helping up-and-coming artists. The family announced the plans for the foundation, called Dr. Oliver Tree’s ...

They say everyone is related in a small town, and in Rio Paloma, Texas, that might be true. Dutton Ranch’s fictional setting requires a brief lesson in genealogy to keep up with alliances and feuds.