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(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
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abreaction
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Abreaction \Ab`re*ac"tion\, n. [Pref. ab- + reaction, after G. Abreagirung.] (Psychotherapy) the purging of emotional tensions. See Catharsis , below. Syn: catharsis, katharsis
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Abreaction is a psychoanalytical term for reliving an experience to purge it of its emotional excesses—a type of catharsis . Sometimes it is a method of becoming conscious of repressed traumatic events. Abreaction: concept introduced by Sigmund Freud in ...
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n. (context psychoanalysis English) The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross. (First attested in the early 20 th century.) (R:SOED5: page=8)
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n. (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions [syn: catharsis , katharsis ]
Usage examples of abreaction.
Yet during abreaction at one point she was acting out holding the knife and doing the slashing.
As soon as abreaction hits one of your group, the others soon topple - one after the other they are hooked.