“Becoming Freud,” by the British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, is short for a biography—less than two hundred pages—and it contains no startling revelations. But, in its own way, it’s an audacious book ...

The world in its current state probably needs more movies built around smart people talking to — and not past — each other. Just as essential to that need are filmmakers with a grasp of how these ...

This week on Layers of Adaptation Theatre is Freud’s Last Session (now on Netflix), a movie based on a stage production (of the same title) based on a book (The Question of God by Armand Nicholi) ...

As Freud struggled to learn the most secret things about himself, his childhood was coming back in a rush of discovery, disconnected memories and dreams, he recalled a nightmare about his mother from ...

Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis probably never met. What the stage-based film presupposes is: Maybe they did? By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our ...

Matthew Brown's film, which had its world premiere at AFI Fest, is an adaptation of an off-Broadway play centering on an imagined exchange between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis. By Stephen Farber ...

Sigmund Freud's seminal texts on psychoanalysis sealed his position as the unofficial father of modern psychology. Whilst not subscribing to any explicitly political weltanschauung – or world-view – ...

Director Matthew Brown indulges an intellectual fantasy — a bit too stiffly, alas — imagining a meeting between C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud at the dying neurologist’s London home. Sometimes a cigar ...