In 1991, Zagdansky traveled to the United States at the invitation of the Film Society of Lincoln Center to present his Freudian film Interpretation of Dreams at the New Directors/New Films series at the Museum of Modern Art.
He was a director of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute and was a practicing Freudian.
Citing Richard Isay's work, LeVay suggests that boys who become gay differ from boys who become straight in ways that influence the behavior of parents and that Freudian theories reverse the direction of causation.
He was associated with the Menninger Foundation, based in Kansas, between 1946-52 under David Rapaport's tutelage in psychological testing and Freudian theory.
Building upon Freudian knowledge and reflections, in particuliar Civilization and Its Discontents, and upon his own discoveries issuing from the concept of “destructiveness”, Gérard Rabinovitch reflects upon the consequences of the versatile character of destruction and our capacity to adapt it to a variety of historical situations while it remains intact.
Henri Claude played a leading role in introducing Freudian theories of psychoanalysis into French psychiatry.
Michel Henry undertook a study of the historical and philosophical genesis of psychoanalysis in the light of phenomenology of life in Généalogie de la psychanalyse, le commencement perdu (Genealogy of Psychoanalysis, the Lost Beginning), in which he shows that the Freudian notion of the unconscious results from the inability of Freud, its founder, to think the essence of life in its purity.
The members follow various orientations, and OPIFER is perhaps the only psychoanalytic association in Europe wherein Freudian, Neo-Freudian, Kleinian, relational, interpersonal, and even Lacanian or Jungian analysts actually coexist and discuss together, all of them aiming at encouraging a pluralistic approach, which welcomes the dialogue among different positions and rejects any dogmatic attitude.
In spite of his doubts he underwent a third analysis during the time he was at Harvard, this time with the prominent Freudian disciple Hanns Sachs.
Rajshekhar's younger brother, Girindrasekhar Bose (1887–1953), was the first Freudian psychoanalyst of the non-Western world, and also wrote books for children.
The term thanatosensitive is derived from the ancient Greek mythological personification of death, Thanatos (Greek: Θάνατος (Thánatos), "Death"), which is itself a term associated with the notion of the death drive common to 20th-century post-Freudian thought.
Professor of German Ritchie Robertson describes the work as representing "the more polemical version of anti-Freudian criticism".
Besides the references to Freudian Psychoanalysis there are also some minor references to the theories behind Gestalt therapy, a form of psychotherapy influenced by both psychoanalytic ideas as well as philosophical notions of a holistic self, personal responsibilities and the consciousness.