couch
31
7.0
- noun
- /kaʊtʃ/
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diván
- A patient with long strawberry blonde hair sat on a couch, leafing through a New Yorker.
- patient on the couch
- psychiatrist's couch
This is why people put Freud, put people on the couch and sat behind them.
- This is why people put Freud, put people on the couch and sat behind them.
- So please, make yourself comfortable, lie down on the couch and tell me about your mummy.
- I sat on his couch to to just work through my shit, right?
- We would my, me and my psychologist down on the couch and she would make me breathe in, like hold my breath and then breathe out.
- In so doing, you set up associations between being on the couch and a negative outcome, and you change her associations with it.
Examples
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In therapy, she often discusses her childhood while lying on the couch.
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So please, make yourself comfortable, lie down on the couch and tell me about your mummy.
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Take her to my office and put her on the couch.
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I took him to the couch, I laid him down, and I sat with him till he was asleep.
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My father laid down on a couch like this and told the psychiatrist all his problems in 1955.
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The patient lies on a couch, mounted here on an accordion structure.
Academic text (2002) -
The psychiatrist asked the patient to relax and share her thoughts while on the couch.
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During the session, he found it helpful to lie down on the couch and open up about his feelings.
Synonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
3
7.7
Asking for sex from someone who wants an acting job in return for a role
- UK
1
7.5
A European grass with long underground roots that spreads quickly and becomes a common weed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Couch in a therapy sense also comes from Old French couche and coucher 'to lie down', because patients would lie on a 'place to lie down' while talking to the analyst. That's why the psychoanalytic couch is a long bed for someone to recline on.