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.

Freud introduced the West to the unconscious, but the last half-century of psychology has reinvented it, argues University of Virginia psychology professor Timothy D. Wilson. In Strangers to Ourselves ...

Knee-jerk reaction has a bad rap. Context is overrated. Everything we need to know was not imparted in kindergarten, during college or at the gnarliest meditation retreat of all time. Rather, in a few ...