The Collaborative International Dictionary
Psychoanalysis \Psy`cho*a*nal"y*sis\, n.
A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis and treatment pf psychoneuroses, based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939) of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that neurosis is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental history, effort being made to bring unconsciuos and preconscious material to consciousness; the methods include analysis of transferance and resistance. In some variants, stress is laid upon the dream life, and of treatment by means of suggestion.
The theory of human psychology which is the foundation for the psychoanalytic therapy, which explores the relation between conscious and unconscious mental processes in motivating human behavior and causing neuroses.
An integrated set of theories of human personality development, motivation, and behavior based on a body of observations.
--[Stedman]One of several schools of psychotherapy, such as jungian psychoanalysis or freudian psychoanalysis.
--[Stedman] [PJC] -- Psy`cho*an`a*lyt"ic, a.; Psych`o*an"al*ist, n., etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1902, from psychoanalysis + -ic.
Wiktionary
a. (context psychoanalysis English) of or relating to psychoanalysis
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud; "Freud's psychoanalytical theories"; "psychoanalytic treatment" [syn: psychoanalytical]
Usage examples of "psychoanalytic".
Other as an unsettling structure of ontology are presented in the context of an anti-empirical, existential psychoanalytic.
ACSW Psychoanalytic Therapist North Hollywood, California Harrison, chubby, around fifty, fair, and jolly looking, with dark-rimmed glasses.
Some psychoanalytic workers also will be intrigued by the heightened transference and countertransference that occurs in text-based interactions.
Prince Myshkin reveal opposing kinds of responses, one of which moves toward Slavophilism and the other toward the at present un-Russian deconstructions of psychoanalytic and feminist theory.
Even though Freud doesn't see the Great Circle of Ascent and Descent, he of course makes use of what small segment of it he does understand: in psychoanalytic therapy, one engages in "regression in service of ego"that is, one descends back into a lower level that was alienated and split off by fear and anxiety (by Phobos), reintegrates that level by embracing it with love and acceptance (Agape), and thus releases that lower level from being a regressive pull, releases it from being in the grips of Thanatos, and allows it to rejoin the ongoing march of a higher identity and a wider love of others (Eros).
Again Hesse introduces the idea of multiple selves, a psychoanalytic approach that first breaks up (analyzes) and then reshapes the different parts of the personality in order to achieve harmony through healthy expression of all the parts.
Gertrude Blanck and Rubin Blanck, for example, pioneers in psychoanalytic developmental psychology, have persuasively argued that the aggressive drive is the drive to differentiation, and Eros is the drive to integration, and disruption of either one results in serious pathology (we will return to this in chap.
This progressive internalization is a cornerstone of psychoanalytic developmental psychology (from Hartmann to Blanck and Blanck to Kernberg to Kohut).
Here, of course, came the inevitable rejoinder, in the form of a bold hypothesis, as, for example, that the civilization might reproduce asexually, which perforce would desexualize its "symbolic lexicon" and thereby in advance doom to failure any attempt at psychoanalytic penetration.
Yet the 'persons within' have remained elusive, and it seems that the hundreds of volumes which collect dust and the annotations of psychoanalytic thinkers have not provided adequate answers to the persons they are written about.
Utilizing their great mental skills, as well as some Earthling techniques like aversion therapy, prefrontal lobotomy, shock treatment, dianetic auditing, and the psychoanalytic couch, they did a quick cure on the laboratory technician.
Sullivan, whose central contribution to psychoanalytic thought was the concept of 'interpersonal relationships', or transactions, claimed that the child built his self-estimate totally on the appraisal of others, what he called 'reflected appraisals'.