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 ...

The study – published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry – provides the first evidence of brain mechanisms to explain Freud’s classical observation that exaggerated guilt and self-blame are ...

The superego was considered the mental embodiment of society’s moral codes, which could result in self-blame and guilt. Created with Sketch. Freud argued that dreams were an important window ...