NOUN
- a thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence
How To Use free association In A Sentence
- He found he could get patients to talk just by putting them in a relaxing position (the couch) and encouraging them to say whatever came into their heads (free association).
- Freud later developed the technique of free association, a triumph which is often neglected in the discussion of his controversial theories.
- This would violate their constitutional right of free association.
- In his quest to treat all neurotics, and not just those who suffer from hysteria, Freud abandons hypnotism and develops the technique of free association.
- In fact, the cabbalistic and/or hermetic connections made between the tarot and its sources were little more than a series of free associations, usually based on personal surmise.
- Remember, one of the fundamental freedoms is the right of free association.
- Freudian psychoanalysis refers to a specific type of treatment in which the "analysand" analytic patient verbalizes thoughts, including free associations, fantasies, and dreams, from which the analyst formulates the unconscious conflicts causing the patient's symptoms and character problems, and interprets them for the patient to create insight for resolution of the problems. Analysand verbalizes thoughts
- It was to be a free association of equal partners.
- It is many things: a free association of free nations, a school in statehood for peoples progressing toward independence, and in any case, a source of strength and wisdom in the free world. The World Bank, Canada, and the Commonwealth
- This technique of free association is a contribution to psychology which is used widely by psychotherapists, including behaviourists.
