PSYCHANALYSIS


Meaning of PSYCHANALYSIS in English

add. ·noun a method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis based on the work of dr. sigmund freud (1856- --) of vienna. the method rests upon the theory that hysteria is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental history, stress being laid upon the dream life, and of treatment by means of suggestion.

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