Anna Freud (1895-1982), Sigmund Freud's youngest daughter and only child to follow him into psychoanalysis, died 30 years ago this year. As I mentioned in a recent post, I was privileged to be ...

What do you visualize when you read words such as “person,” “people” or “individual”? Chances are the image in your head is of a man, not a woman. If so, you are not alone. A massive linguistic ...

BOSTON – Within the quiet pages of books, words are battling it out with a competitive fierceness that rivals Wall Street’s. New research examining the frequency of words used in books over more than ...

Analysis is an important skill to learn and practise in English – it helps you to explore and understand the writer’s craft. When we analyse a text, we are trying to understand how it works. We can ...