analysand
- noun
- /ˈænəˌsænd/
- Jargon
- The analysand discussed her dreams every week, hoping to uncover hidden meanings.
- the analyst and the analysand
Examples
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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
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.