1. • noun - a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders
2. • The method of psychiatric therapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts.
   • The theory of personality developed by Freud that focuses on repression and unconscious forces and includes the concepts of infantile sexuality, resistance, transference, and division of the psyche into the id, ego, and superego.
   • Psychiatric treatment incorporating this method and theory.

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