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analysand

analysand

1 9.9
A person who talks with a therapist to understand their thoughts and feelings
  • noun
  • /ˈænəˌsænd/
  • Jargon
: analizado
  • The analysand discussed her dreams every week, hoping to uncover hidden meanings.
  • the analyst and the analysand

Examples

  • Psychoanalysis takes years, at the end of which the analysand typically feels much wiser about the roots of her misery but no less miserable.

    Academic text (2009)
  • In fact, however, it is not only today's analysands who increasingly are being scrutinized in terms of preoedipal issues and found wanting.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The analysand's response is quite straightforward: "But please tell me why you won't help me?"

    Academic text (1990)
  • Psychiatrists frequently have such an arrangement to protect the privacy of their analysands.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Many of Jung's analysands were wealthy American women, so it wasn't hard to find sponsors for me.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Weren't many of Jung's analysands women, and didn't many of them later become analysts themselves?

    Fiction book (1997)
  • And the reason is made clear by him to the analysand: "I have little use and less praise for self-made Jews who pretend to be artists, atheists, writers, or dancers."

    Academic text (1990)
  • The analyst is postulated here to be in direct contact with the analysand's mind and passions, as if in a kind of Vulcan mind-meld.

    Blog text (10)
  • For years, Beck had been detecting, in the free-associative monologues of his analysands, a stream of thought that seemed increasingly consequential.

    Academic text (2009)
  • In her sessions, the analysand explored her childhood memories to understand her current behaviors.

Surface Forms

analysand singular
analysands plural

Morphology

analysand = analyse (semi-transparent) = analyse + and

Formally built from 'analyse' + the rare nominalizing suffix '-and' meaning 'one who is analysed', but the suffix is uncommon and the term is specialized to psychoanalytic contexts.

Etymology

Analysand comes from the verb analyse plus the ending -and, which means 'to be acted on', like in addend meaning 'something to be added'. So an analysand is the person 'to be analysed', the patient in psychoanalysis.