abreact
IPA: ʌbriˈækt
verb
- (transitive, psychoanalysis) To eliminate previously repressed emotions by reliving past experiences.
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Examples of "abreact" in Sentences
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- A model for abreaction with MPD and other dissociative disorders.
- Hypnosis is often used as a tool for recall in abreaction therapy.
- Janov distinguishes the primal from emotional catharsis or abreaction.
- Back in Vienna he developed abreaction therapy using hypnosis with Josef Breuer.
- What might our media look like, what might our social fabric look like and how might it react, abreact or respond to various stimuli, etcetera?
- Believing that Michael was understandably reactive to these severe familial stresses, his therapist recommended continued therapy so that he would have a place to ventilate, abreact, and share his feelings in a way that would not create the social consequences noted above at school.