Daily archives:May 25, 2011

Psychoanalytic Couches: A Freudian Approach to Furniture Design

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When Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis to investigate the mind and provide treatment for those with psychological and emotional illnesses, he intended that the patient lay on a couch to induce a relaxed state and say whatever comes to mind. As such, the brilliant psychologist, within the walls of his own famed offices, had an inviting divan-style couc[...]

Psychoanalytic Couches: A Freudian Approach to Furniture Design

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When Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis to investigate the mind and provide treatment for those with psychological and emotional illnesses, he intended that the patient lay on a couch to induce a relaxed state and say whatever comes to mind. As such, the brilliant psychologist, within the walls of his own famed offices, had an inviting divan-style couc[...]