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- noun (Psychotherapy) the purging of emotional tensions. See
catharsis , below.
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- noun (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
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Examples
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Luborsky suggested an explanation: “The different forms of psychotherapy have major common elements—a helping relationship with a therapist…along with the other related, nonspecific effects such as suggestion and abreaction Freudian jargon for emotional catharsis.”
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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Meg also received abreaction therapy, during which she was given a "truth drug" that forced her to talk without restraint and left her with no memory of what she had said.
The asylum experience never leaves you Clare Allan 2010
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And the Islamist movement, of which he disapproves rightfully so, is that to be seen as an abreaction to the West?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Joseph Massad Awarded Tenure at Columbia: 2009
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I read the rethugs outcry to Durbin's honest feelings about what the AMerican FBI did to their interrogatees as a collective abreaction.
Flashback: When Durbin Compared U.S. Torture To Nazis, Firestorm Ensued 2009
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They have already seen what abreaction to price can do to price.
Stephen Herrington: Detroit, the Last Stand of Middle America 2008
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But now it is time for the return of the repressed and the joyful abreaction of real democracy.
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Should we re-read those pages in Tocqueville on the good fortune of being sheltered by geography from violations of the nation's territorial space, and come to see in this return to the flag a neurotic abreaction to the astonishment that the violation actually occurred?
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005
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Should we re-read those pages in Tocqueville on the good fortune of being sheltered by geography from violations of the nation's territorial space, and come to see in this return to the flag a neurotic abreaction to the astonishment that the violation actually occurred?
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005
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Should we re-read those pages in Tocqueville on the good fortune of being sheltered by geography from violations of the nation's territorial space, and come to see in this return to the flag a neurotic abreaction to the astonishment that the violation actually occurred?
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005
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My abreaction is to both what they maintain tikun olam in effect mandates and to many of them personally.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Law and Economics Training for Religious Leaders: 2007
cryptofascistbbq commented on the word abreaction
the resolution of a neurosis by reviving forgotten or repressed ideas of the event first causing it, e.g. bomb blasts; Abreaction of the Lord of the Night, 139
May 28, 2009