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Psychoanalysis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A family of theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that work to find connections among patients' unconscious mental processes. countable, uncountable

    "To be sure, this much I may presume you do know, namely, that psychoanalysis is a method of treating nervous patients medically."

  2. 2
    a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud wordnet

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, after German Psychoanalyse. By surface analysis, psycho- + analysis.

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