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psychoanalytic

[ US /ˌsaɪkoʊˌænəˈɫɪtɪk/ ]
[ UK /sˌa‍ɪkə‍ʊˌænɐlˈɪtɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud
    psychoanalytic treatment
    Freud's psychoanalytical theories

How To Use psychoanalytic In A Sentence

  • One might as well tell the patient she is possessed by demons, as give her a psychoanalytic explanation of her physical disease or disorder.
  • But it is ordinary reciprocity that good psychoanalytic practice must, axiomatically, bar from the relationship of analyst and patient.
  • In 1931 there were no medications to treat mental illness (lobotomies came into vogue in 1935, for example) and psychiatry was divided between those doctors treating state hospital patients (many of whom had paresis or were schizophrenic/bipolar) who were considered “organic” and those who were more psychoanalytic, mostly in big cities. The Volokh Conspiracy » Jerome Frank on Oliver Wendell Holmes:
  • Psychoanalytic thinking proposes to shine a high-beam headlight into the dark cave of our most primal urges.
  • I also wonder whether there is a term in psychoanalytic theory for this perception of our body's radical alterity.
  • Suppose, further, that these are essential to accounting for the other basic psychoanalytic categories like phantasy, projections, introjections, denial, defense, repression etc.
  • One has the impression that Greenfield was informed she would be asked about this period in Freud's early psychoanalytic career, so she mugged it up from a psychoanalytic source and regurgitated it as best she could.
  • There are no psychoanalytical shortcuts into my pants , okay?
  • The phenomenon of "transference" is one of the cornerstones of psychoanalytic theory.
  • Postgraduate work on psychoanalytic theory floundered in exhausting research. The Times Literary Supplement
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