NOUN
- a thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence
How To Use free association In A Sentence
- Before I started drafting the piece, I sat down and wrote out about two pages of free association, just listing images that fit with two of the themes of the story.
- One is tempted to say that there is something like free association going on here. The Times Literary Supplement
- Maintained on company servers and open to the public, these blogs are used by many high-tech workers for debate, free association, and collecting input about projects.
- This technique of free association is a contribution to psychology which is used widely by psychotherapists, including behaviourists.
- This technique of free association is a contribution to psychology which is used widely by psychotherapists, including behaviourists.
- When, one by one, all of his women patients stopped doing the work of free association that they had at first enthusiastically taken up and began shyly and then importunely to declare their love for him, he shrewdly surmised that it was not 'the charms of my person' that were the cause of the disturbance but, rather, that the women were in a state of readiness to fall in love, and he was simply Bottom to their Titania. The Patient Is Always Right
- It was to be a free association of equal partners.
- This would violate their constitutional right of free association.
- Even the most innocent Jell-O fact sends me spiraling into free association darker than even the blackest black cherry.
- He manages to bring to the stage the kind of free association and wildness of human thought that is generally the realm of the novelist.