Tag: Sigmund Freud

  • Nation & World

    Advice to students: Learn to think scientifically

    Mona Weissmark says the scientific method contains within itself a system of logic and standards of evidence that can be used for improving society.

    8 minutes
    Mona Weissmark
  • Nation & World

    A time of change, a longing for home in Vienna

    Harvard professor’s documentary in progress traces the rise of creativity and the forces countering it in Vienna a century ago.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Feminine Mystique’ at 50

    A revealing exhibit at the Schlesinger Library charts the evolution of Betty Friedan’s seminal work “The Feminine Mystique.” What began as a college reunion survey morphed into a treatise that looked deeply into gender, power, and sexuality.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    He wrote the book of love

    A neurologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School ponders love and its complexities in his latest book, “What to Read on Love, Not Sex: Freud, Fiction, and the Articulation of Truth in Modern Psychological Science.”

    4 minutes