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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun same as psychoanalysis; -- an older term now obsolete.

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Examples

  • Given how much of psychology or psychanalysis is scientifically dubious (e.g. Freud's infalsifiable theories), one should take all this with a big grain of salt.

    Giles and Stereotype Accuracy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Five months later, on March 2, 1913, in yet another unsigned piece in the Magazine, the author expressed enthusiasm for the new science, explaining that "Freud's method is known as psychanalysis, which bears the same relation to mental and nervous diseases that the microscope does to pathology."

    NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS BAKALAR 2011

  • "I should like very much to make what we call a psychanalysis of

    The Treasure-Train 1908

  • There is a new idea in medicine -- the development of which has been one of the most striking achievements of modern times -- the idea of psychanalysis as taught and advocated by Freud in Germany.

    The Untroubled Mind 1896

  • And it was on this day that The Times first referred to a new treatment method called "psychanalysis" and went on to define it: "It is an analysis by a trained psychologist of the patient's mental life, a probing into the deepest recesses and darkest corners of his mind, with the idea of bringing back to consciousness the repressions which are at the basis of his condition."

    NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS BAKALAR 2011

  • A long article about the work of Carl Jung appeared in the magazine on Sept. 29, 1912, still referring to "psychanalysis" and mentioning Freud's original work in the field.

    NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS BAKALAR 2011

  • Again I watched Kennedy as he tactfully went through the preparations for another kind of psychanalysis, placing Miss

    The War Terror 1908

  • Let me proceed now with what the Freudists call the psychanalysis, the soul analysis, of Mrs.Maitland. "

    The Dream Doctor 1908

  • Just don`t know why a book who talks about psychanalysis,modern drugs,nazis,money,radio…this book is not high culture and although was included in the Western Cannon.

    Harold Bloom, literary lion, loses his shit on Potter fans…again « raincoaster 2007

  • Another lady begins her novel with the following psychanalysis:

    Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

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