abreaction
IPA: ʌbriˈækʃʌn
noun
- (psychoanalysis) The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross.
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Examples of "abreaction" in Sentences
- They have already seen what abreaction to price can do to price.
- 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.
- But now it is time for the return of the repressed and the joyful abreaction of real democracy.
- My abreaction is to both what they maintain tikun olam in effect mandates and to many of them personally.
- And the Islamist movement, of which he disapproves rightfully so, is that to be seen as an abreaction to the West?
- I read the rethugs outcry to Durbin's honest feelings about what the AMerican FBI did to their interrogatees as a collective abreaction.
- Meg also received abreaction therapy, during which she was given a "truth drug" that forced her to talk without restraint and left her with no memory of what she had said.
- Luborsky suggested an explanation: “The different forms of psychotherapy have major common elements—a helping relationship with a therapist…along with the other related, nonspecific effects such as suggestion and abreaction Freudian jargon for emotional catharsis.”
- Should we re-read those pages in Tocqueville on the good fortune of being sheltered by geography from violations of the nation's territorial space, and come to see in this return to the flag a neurotic abreaction to the astonishment that the violation actually occurred?