psychoanalysis
English
Etymology
From psycho- + analysis, after German Psychoanalyse.
Noun
psychoanalysis (countable and uncountable, plural psychoanalyses)
- A family of theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that work to find connections among patients' unconscious mental processes
- 1920, Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
- To be sure, this much I may presume you do know, namely, that psychoanalysis is a method of treating nervous patients medically.
- 1920, Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
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Translations
family of psychological theories
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