Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive psychoanalysis English) To eliminate previously repressed emotions by relive past experiences. (First attested in the early 20th century.)(R:SOED5: page=8)
WordNet
v. discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization
Usage examples of "abreact".
Of course, if we merely abreact them each day and repeat them again the next, we are not doing ourselves very much good, for although we may have neutralised that particular portion of karma, we are acquiring plenty more of an even more unpleasant nature, for we are making sure of a place for ourselves in the hell reserved for hypocrites, and anything more painful than the unmasking of a hypocrite to the depths of his selfish and cowardly soul it is hard to imagine.
By abreacting each day any errors we may have made, we prevent our purgatorial debt from accumulating.
Once, in 1964, when Sandoz LSD-25 could still be acquired -- especially in Berkeley -- Fat had dropped one huge hit of it and had abreacted back in time or had shot forward in time or up outside of time.
Had he been shown an even older symbol he would have abreacted farther.
Elmo's Fire which Fat recognized as alive and sentient probably abreacted back to this time-period and is one of our own children.
Breuer and Freud are correct in stating that the operative force of the idea which was not abreacted by allowing its strangulated effect to find a way out in speech or action must be relived—brought back, in other words—to its status nascendi.