Like the Buddha, Sigmund Freud wrestled with the question of what it was about pleasure that was not satisfactory.

The teacher who looks like Laxman's Common Man is waxing eloquent about the virtues of silence. Mounam sarvartha sadhanam, he tells the cla...

Think of the epidemiology: every cigarette deletes seven minutes from a smoker's life.

Speilrein hardly gets a footnote in the history of psychoanalysis. But the Russian psychoanalyst who studied under Carl and saw his mentor.

Beginning is the most important part of the work, said Plato. For if one does not begin at all, how does one expect to win?

We got introduced to Kabir in school through a doha which said bliss is when you remember God in good times, not just in the bad ones. Most...

During his arduous practice, psychiatrist Theodore Isaac Rubin forgot the adage, “Healer, heal thyself.” That led to a sense of personal fa...