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noun - (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
ABREACTION - Abreaction (German: Abreagieren) is a psychoanalytical term for reliving an experience to purge it of its emotional excessesa type of catharsis. Some...
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| Rating right-wing attitude as a psychological process |
| Sailor about to face battle giving emotional response |
| Emotional release exploded in boat race |
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| Jun 21 2012 The Times - Cryptic |
| Mar 25 2008 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
| Nov 20 2006 The Times - Cryptic |
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| the purging of emotional tensions. See catharsis, below. |
| the expression and consequent release of a previously repressed emotion, achieved through reliving the experience that caused it (typically through hypnosis or suggestion). |
| (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions |
| The expression and consequent release of a previously repressed emotion, achieved through reliving the experience that caused it (typically through hypnosis or suggestion) |
| Rating right-wing attitude as a psychological process (10) |
| Purification |
| Catharsis |
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Abreaction (German: Abreagieren) is a psychoanalytical term for reliving an experience to purge it of its emotional excessesa type of catharsis. Sometimes it is a method of becoming conscious of repressed traumatic events.* Abreaction: concept introduced by Sigmund Freud in 1893 to denote the fact that pent-up emotions associated with a trauma can be discharged by talking about it. The release of affect occurred by bringing "a particular moment or problem into focus"... and as such formed the cornerstone of Freud's early cathartic method of treating hysterical conversion symptoms. * Freud's mentor, Josef Breuer, may have actually introduced the concept of abreaction. Early in his career, psychoanalyst Carl Jung expressed interest in abreaction, or what he referred to as trauma theory, but later decided it had limitations in treatment of neurosis. Jung said: * * Though traumata of clearly aetiological significance were occasionally present, the majority of them appeared very improbable. Many |