psychoanalysis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A family of theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that work to find connections among patients' unconscious mental processes.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

psychoanalysis psychoanalyses

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, after German Psychoanalyse. By surface analysis, psycho- + analysis.

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