"On the one hand, psychoanalysis is practical in the sense that there is an attempt to solve a problem, or to cure somebody, or at least to address their suffering. But the other thing that ...

Freud’s insights into trauma, repression and the unconscious are finding new relevance and millions of followers.

With their expert knowledge of the human mind and its desires, you might expect psychoanalysts’ relationships to be free from the chaos that characterises most of our romantic lives. But about halfway ...