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psychoanalysis | American Dictionary

psychoanalysis
noun[ U ]
us/ˌsɑɪ·koʊ·əˈnæl·ə·sɪs/
a theory and method of treating mental illness in which a person is encouraged to talk about private thoughts and events to someone trained in this method

Examples of psychoanalysis

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If this was so, his major interest was certainly cultural history; but the point of psychoanalysis is precisely its integration of these areas.
This situation further muddies the waters regarding the utility of the simple "pro" versus "anti" framework in analyzing early responses to psychoanalysis.
The whole book is a sad caricature of the kind of unselective suspicion of motives which has made psychoanalysis increasingly a laughing-stock amongst psychiatrists.
His sources not only cover contemporary clinical psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis, but also extend to philosophy and literature, classic and modern alike.
What should finally be stressed though is that our historically reflexive awareness of psychoanalysis is a major factor in subverting its totalizing aspirations.
Although he had previously dabbled with psychoanalysis, at this point he was not formally trained.
This fragmentation, euphemistically discussed as pluralism, could on its own spell the demise of psychoanalysis.
Even the latter however are fairly keen to clarify the unique character of psychoanalysis, if not always to its advantage. ii.
The chapter assesses how psychoanalysis could be used to investigate "the psychological self" in applied linguistics.
The supportive approach is not new in psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis, behaviour therapy, drama therapy, medical treatment of drug withdrawal and chronic psychoses, and feminism are just some of the frameworks adopted.
Yet any threads of connection between the two conditions have dropped from the official memory of psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
As a result, behaviorism supplanted psychoanalysis as the dominant clinical paradigm of the time.
This neurocognitive hypothesis would bring the process of dreaming closer to that studied by psychoanalysis.
An extensive bibliography largely concerning psychoanalysis is presented.
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