Sigmund Freud

The ultimate spin-master of 20th-century American advertising and politics, Edward Bernays knew the power of government spectacle—for good and for ill.

Two women say they were sexually abused and raped as children by British politician and broadcaster Sir Clement Freud, who owned a home close to the complex where McCann vanished.

Psychoanalyst and photographer Dr. Mark Gerard’s photo series, In the Shadow of Freud’s Couch, goes inside 70 therapists’ offices—taking viewers inside a usually closed-off space.

Goce Smilevski retraces the psychoanalyst’s negligence that led up to the death of his sister in a Nazi concentration camp. By Lauren Elkin.

A day spent with Mrs. Dalloway will give you the definitive portrait of the author, but rarely seen or heard footage and recordings of great writers allow you to hear their words at the source. By Jimmy So.

In his new book The Age of Insight, the memory biologist Eric Kandel studies the art of Vienna, where he fled from the Nazis when he was 9. Jimmy So talks to the Nobel winner.