Janine Burke's examination of Sigmund Freud is part biography, part art history, and part analysis of Freud, the man. She has opened up new territory by choosing to study Freud's life and ideas through a focus on his collection of art and antiquities.

In 1909 Austrian neurologist and father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud made his first and only trip to the United States. He had been invited by the president of Clark University to give a series of lectures on psychoanalysis.

Joining the chorus of voices in the health care debate, an issue which has continued to dominate the American conversation, is Timothy A. Kelly with Healing the Broken Mind.

Despite the recent biography of Martha Freud by Katja Behling, and the numerous books about her husband, Sigmund Freud, little has been written about how Mrs. Freud (1861-1951) may have felt about her life with the founder of psychoanalysis.

Having exposed the power of the unconscious, Sigmund Freud was hardly modest in assessing his own achievement. Like Copernicus and Darwin, he argued, his theories had delivered the “third and most wounding blow” to the “naïve self-love” that characterized human culture.

The enduring power of religious belief in the 21st century would come as something of a surprise to Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, and the other long-departed social theorists whose influence lurks in the background of Tamas Pataki’s provocative essays Against Religion.