Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The method of psychological therapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts, in order to free psychic energy for mature love and work.
- noun The theory of personality developed by Freud that focuses on repression and unconscious forces and includes the concepts of infantile sexuality, resistance, transference, and division of the psyche into the id, ego, and superego.
- noun Psychotherapy incorporating this method and theory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis and treatment pf psychoneuroses, based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939) of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that neurosis is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental history, effort being made to bring unconsciuos and preconscious material to consciousness; the methods include analysis of transferance and resistance. In some variants, stress is laid upon the dream life, and of treatment by means of suggestion.
- noun The theory of human psychology which is the foundation for the psychoanalytic therapy, which explores the relation between conscious and unconscious mental processes in motivating human behavior and causing neuroses.
- noun An integrated set of theories of human personality development, motivation, and behavior based on a body of observations.
- noun One of several schools of psychotherapy, such as
jungian psychoanalysis orfreudian psychoanalysis .
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- noun psychoanalysis a family of
psychological theories and methods within the field ofpsychotherapy that work to find connections among patients' unconscious mental processes
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- noun a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud
Etymologies
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Examples
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When Freud chose the term "psychoanalysis," he was sensitive not only to the meanings of the root word psyche as "soul" and as "butterfly," but he must have had in mind, as well, the transformative connotation of the word.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ph.D. Jane G. Goldberg 2011
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What makes the children make themselves is called psychoanalysis.
An Episode of Boxes J. A. Tyler 2011
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What makes the children make themselves is called psychoanalysis.
An Episode of Boxes J. A. Tyler 2011
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Child psychoanalysis is rarely portrayed in the media -- maybe never -- and certainly never so well as on this season's Madmen.
Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon: Madgirl Part 3: Sally's Analysis Is Working and There Will Be Hell to Pay Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon 2010
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First, you are engaged in psychoanalysis when you attribute motives to others.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism 2010
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What makes the children make themselves is called psychoanalysis.
An Episode of Boxes J. A. Tyler 2011
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Moreover, psychoanalysis is the form as well as content of the 1815 version, which inscribes itself within a movement of return or unworking.
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Moreover, one could roughly map this evolution onto the twentieth-century theoretical development of psychoanalysis from the split between Freud and Jung to
Introduction 2008
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No other behavioral science is as distinctly linked with the 20th century as psychology; no other branch of psychology is as basic to clinical and popular understanding as psychoanalysis; and no other figure looms as large in psychoanalysis (or much else) as Sigmund Freud.
Cover to Cover 2008
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To be sure what we are anachronistically discerning as a scene of psychoanalysis is part of the process by which Being
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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