psychoanalytic
- adjective
- /ˌsaɪkoʊəˈnælɪtɪk/
- Specialized
- The therapist used a psychoanalytic approach to help her clients understand their unconscious motivations.
- psychoanalytic theory
- psychoanalytic training
- psychoanalytic therapy
He says as as a psychoanalytic practitioner, my goal is to make things conscious.
- He says as as a psychoanalytic practitioner, my goal is to make things conscious.
- So we can't just in a cookie cutter way take psychoanalytic concepts and then apply them to to this situation.
- But she realized that the Freudian psychoanalytic method wasn't helping anybody get better because it ignored trauma.
- But what pissed me off even more was we people would come in and we'd go through the psychoanalytic thing.
Examples
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Well, isn't there a psychoanalytic institute in Washington?
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Other Indians did not reject psychoanalysis out of hand, but tried to combine psychoanalytic concepts with Hinduism.
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You know, then I think again, psychoanalytic activity is the activity of reason.
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It's only the basis of modern psychoanalytic theory.
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The psychoanalytic theory of personality.
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By the time of the revolution, the psychoanalytic community in Russia had established a significant presence.
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The problem with the psychoanalytic approach is that it really isn't comprehensive enough.
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Freud himself was aware of the emergence of a psychoanalytic community in Russia.
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Recently, the Soviet Psychoanalytic Association has been officially reestablished with the approval of the government.
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Angel Garma was a Spanish psychiatrist who had been trained at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
About Sigmund Freud's idea that the unconscious mind shapes people's behaviour
Ideas and methods that study the mind and thoughts you are not aware of, like Freud's
Showing how hidden feelings and thoughts shape behavior and personality
Compounds
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A type of talk therapy that explores a person's hidden thoughts and childhood experiences
How Psychoanalytic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Psychoanalytic combines psycho- meaning 'mind', as in psychology, and analytic meaning 'to examine' or 'to break down'. So psychoanalytic therapy is a way of studying a person's hidden thoughts and feelings, and it comes from the method first used by Sigmund Freud.