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Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria and compulsion neurosis.

Certainly one of the best courses we've added into our new Free Courses Collection is Stanford University Professor Robert Sapolsky's course on "Human Behavioral Biology".

Take PSYC 110 with Professor Paul Bloom at Yale University and learn the basics about your mind and brain. Bloom is the author of numerous books and popular articles including his most recent book How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like.

In this interesting talk delivered by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, he explores how the food industry went from looking for the perfect single spaghetti sauce recipe to a more diverse approach of creating a variety of spaghetti sauces to suit the desires of shoppers.

Newton Minow was a sober voice in addressing concerns over television broadcasting in the 1960s. He was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission under President Kennedy and his famous "Television is a Vast Wasteland" Speech in 1961 sparked debate over the content and commercials that were being thrust on the American public.

The Silent Scream is a 1984 anti-abortion educational film directed by Jack Duane Dabner and narrated by Bernard Nathanson, an obstetrician, NARAL Pro-Choice America founder, and abortion provider turned pro-life activist, and produced in partnership with the National Right to Life Committee.

There are approximately 5.7 million people in the United States with bipolar disorder.

How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict was popular in the 1920s and it's popular again today!

On the Record presents Drew Dixon's story in the aftermath of alleged abuse by her boss and hip-hop mogul, Russell Simmons.

Writer David Foster Wallace was on Fresh Air in 1997 to talk about his collection of essays A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.