Despite what you might have thought this does not happen when someone has a ‘splitting headache’ but is usually the result of a surgery to treat refractory epilepsy. This usually involves cutting through the middle of the brain, known as the corpus callosum, and separating the two halves of the hemispheres effectively leaving the patient […] Read more »

Where does our understanding of the ego come from? Freud, the founding father of psychology, believed that much of what ails us mentally was located in the unconscious aspects of the mind and that the way we were raised by our parents and carers created “conflicts” there. He also believed that we went through stages […] Read more »