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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
psychoanalyst
noun
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▪ By 1985, when the psychoanalysts attempted to reintroduce masochism, a backlash against feminism, against uppity women, was current.
▪ Comment: Some of us would like to be psychoanalysts.
▪ He and other psychoanalysts have relied on dreams recollected during therapy sessions, or those they could recall themselves.
▪ Like an old-fashioned psychoanalyst, Chandler saw his task as the dismantling of illusion.
▪ She advanced this theory to the child psychoanalyst to whom she was delivered the next day.
▪ So Gould grew up to become a psychoanalyst, a kind of secular savior.
▪ That there is aggression in work enterprises has been a phenomenon pointed to and discussed by a number of psychoanalysts.
▪ The response of a psychoanalyst might be to say, so what?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
psychoanalyst

also psycho-analyst, 1910; see psycho- + analyst.

Wiktionary
psychoanalyst

n. A practitioner of psychoanalysis.

WordNet
psychoanalyst

n. a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis [syn: analyst]

Usage examples of "psychoanalyst".

In short, we are psychoanalysts with others but situationists with ourselves.

Well, as normal as two psychoanalysts whose son has his own webzine and whose daughter has her own cable-access television show can be.

Phil watched with amusement as the psychoanalyst sharply scanned Juno, Sacheverell and Mary.

He thought of Bruno, who that morning had defiled the Greek temple with his opinion of eurythmics, and Frank, who was on his fifth psychoanalyst and had seizures in unsuitable places when his will was crossed.

The dramatic page which she devoted to this sybilline phrase must be read to gauge the full imagination of the psychoanalyst, who had no qualms about basing the whole of her Oedipean edifice on feet of clay: a note at the foot of a page, freely interpreted and promoted to the rank of a crucial event.

Music ceased to be a distilment of life and became, for a lot of people, a substitute for life -- a substitute for a sea-voyage, or the ecstasies of sainthood, or being raped by a cannibal king, or even for an hour with a psychoanalyst or a good movement of the bowels.

He was writing, he told me, an article for the _Psychopathological Review_--that's probably wrong, but it was something on that order-- condemning the hypothesis of an unconscious or subconscious mind as a snare and a delusion, a pitfall for the unwary and a set of false whiskers for the charlatan, a gap in psychology's roof that made it impossible, or nearly, for the sound scholar to smoke out such faddists as, for exaniple, the psychoanalyst and the behaviorist, or words to that effect.

Some psychoanalysts define all mental illnesses as incest-obsessions, you know.