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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun psychoanalysis has 1 sense
- psychoanalysis(n = noun.act) analysis, depth psychology - a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis" is a kind of psychotherapy
has particulars: hypnoanalysis
Derived forms adjective psychoanalytic1, adjective psychoanalytical1
CIDE DICTIONARY
psychoanalysis, n.
- A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis and treatment pf psychoneuroses, based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939) of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that neurosis is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental history, effort being made to bring unconsciuos and preconscious material to consciousness; the methods include analysis of transferance and resistance. In some variants, stress is laid upon the dream life, and of treatment by means of suggestion. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- The theory of human psychology which is the foundation for the psychoanalytic therapy, which explores the relation between conscious and unconscious mental processes in motivating human behavior and causing neuroses. [PJC]
- An integrated set of theories of human personality development, motivation, and behavior based on a body of observations. [PJC]
- One of several schools of psychotherapy, such as
jungian psychoanalysis orfreudian psychoanalysis . [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
psychoanalysis, n. a therapeutic method of treating mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind.
Derivative
psychoanalyse v.tr. psychoanalyst n. psychoanalytic adj. psychoanalytical adj. psychoanalytically adv.