5 things Freud got right about your brain

Below, Mark Solms shares five key insights from his new book, The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing. Mark is a neuroscientist who took the unusual step of also training as a psychoanalyst. For 40 years, he has used the tools of modern neuroscience to test and refine psychoanalytic theory. A pioneering figure in neuropsychoanalysis, his research uncovered key brain mechanisms involved in dreaming, reshaping our understanding of the sleeping mind. He is also the science…