abreaction

NOUN
  1. (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions

How To Use abreaction In A Sentence

  • All Freud says about her symptoms at this point is, ‘This process of abreaction certainly did her much good’, with no mention of her leg pains having abated.
  • The abreaction experienced by this patient as well as her comments after termination of the session suggest that unblocking her emotional response, rather than her gut, was the main factor in her recovery.
  • They have already seen what abreaction to price can do to price. Stephen Herrington: Detroit, the Last Stand of Middle America
  • Should we re-read those pages in Tocqueville on the good fortune of being sheltered by geography from violations of the nation's territorial space, and come to see in this return to the flag a neurotic abreaction to the astonishment that the violation actually occurred? In the Footsteps of Tocqueville
  • Like Karon's patient, they were often treated with hypnotic abreaction in which the patient was expected to re-live the moment of trauma with unrestrained emotions.
  • Oedema patient pass water is little, if be in first when serve as beverage with ormosia Bao soup, morrow swollen situation can drop, take 67 days repeatedly, the likelihood is completely abreaction.
  • Although a second traumatic event may serve as abreaction or a cure for some dissociative amnesic states, this seems unlikely in the event of two severe neurological insults.
  • Meg also received abreaction therapy, during which she was given a "truth drug" that forced her to talk without restraint and left her with no memory of what she had said. The asylum experience never leaves you
  • His manner of blurring distinctions gives us abreaction and comfort.
  • Age regression was used to explore the perceived cause of symptoms, and abreaction of the associated emotions was encouraged.
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