Articles by David Cohen

14Dec

Freud, Agatha Christie, and the Intrigue of Detective Stories

David Cohen

books

Mind

Did you know Freud was a big Agatha Christie fan? David Cohen's new book Inspecting Psychology explores the links between two different kinds of detection.
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28Nov

Do the Experts Get Parenting Right?

David Cohen

children, family, psychology

Relationships

Does knowing the theory about raising a child make it any easier for the families of renowned psychologists who specialised in child development? David Cohen explores
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20Aug

Sigmund Freud and the Nazi Who Saved Him

David Cohen

psychology, therapy

Mind

When Sigmund Freud fled Vienna at the outbreak of the Second World War, a Nazi chemist helped him settle in London
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19Feb

Want to Know Yourself? Take Our Test

David Cohen

psychology, self

Mind

“If I knew myself, I’d run away,” said Goethe, who, incidentally, was Freud’s favourite writer. You might imagine that knowing yourself would be one of the key goals of psychology.  Often it has not been, however. When I was young one of the most distinguished experimental psychologists of his generation Donald Broadbent told me students should realise it was an illusion that psychology would teach them to know themselves better. Perhaps that’s why a paper on Experiential Self Monitoring which I reported in 1980 made such an impression on me. It was given by E J...
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