psychoanalyse
I went to medical school to become a psychoanalyst because I was interested in how the human mind works.
Did you ask your doctor for a referral to a psychoanalyst?
She is a psychoanalyst who often serves as an expert witness in court.

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psychoanalyst | American Dictionary

psychoanalyst
noun[ C ]
us/ˌsɑɪ·koʊˈæn·əl·ɪst/(short formanalyst)
a person with special training in psychoanalysis

Examples of psychoanalyst

psychoanalyst
The dream had already been a part of the cinema's standard repertoire for some time before the first psychoanalysts began going to the cinema.
His extreme individualism and unconventional life-style (for example, he had an "open-marriage" and "open house") did not lend itself to being judged by psychoanalysts.
King describes a contemporary climate amongst practising psychoanalysts in which colleagues would only quietly ' confess ' to working with patients who were over 40 years old.
Sadly, the response of psychoanalysts has been more defensive than welcoming of these remarkable advances.
This is possibly a reflection of the pressure exerted by psychoanalysts to establish a position of prominence in the field of analytical therapy.
At times, they seem to require sociolinguists, linguistic anthropologists, and discourse analysts to reinvent themselves as field psychoanalysts, ascribing repressed desires to those they study.
Through such uninhibited release of an associative movement within the patient's psyche, the psychoanalyst could make his way through the unconscious.
As moviegoers, the first generation of psychoanalysts encountered notions of dreaming that reminded them of their prehistory.
It is easy to catch the philosopher or psychoanalyst who makes an irrelevant scientific quotation.
However, these studies fell out of favor with psychoanalysts when taken up by apparently alien scientific disciplines.
But his work did become known in the 1950s and it would seem that some psychoanalysts were prepared to follow his lead.
Such hostilities do not constitute, what the psychoanalysts call, a narcissistic wound.
It allows the psychoanalyst to claim access to events at the very dawn of human history.
She does not supply ' evidence ', for she is suspicious of the focus on evidence, but rather looks for ' suggestions ' - the psychoanalyst's approach.
Yet psychoanalysts continually involve themselves in introspection and their own psychotherapy and supervision to examine themselves for such tendencies.
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