psychoanalyse

Thân thiện

The therapist helps the patient psychoanalyse a recurring dream.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To treat someone using psychoanalysis: To subject a person to psychoanalytic treatment, a therapeutic method developed by Sigmund Freud that aims to bring unconscious conflicts and motivations into conscious awareness, often through techniques like free association and dream analysis.

Usage

• The verb "psychoanalyse" (American English: ) is a transitive verb, meaning it requires a direct object (the person being treated).
• It is used in professional, clinical, and sometimes informal, critical contexts.
• Common Structures:
  • to psychoanalyse someone
  • to be psychoanalysed by someone

Examples

• Verb:
  • The therapist offered to psychoanalyse him to uncover the root of his anxiety.
  • In the novel, the protagonist is psychoanalysed by a mysterious doctor.
  • She did not want her friends to try and psychoanalyse her every decision.

Advanced Usage

• "to psychoanalyse oneself": To attempt to apply the methods of psychoanalysis to one's own thoughts and behaviors, often in a self-reflective or critical manner.
  • He had a tendency to psychoanalyse himself constantly, which only increased his stress.

Variants and Related Words

• Psychoanalysis (n): The clinical method and theoretical system itself.
  • He studied the history of psychoanalysis.
• Psychoanalyst (n): A practitioner of psychoanalysis.
  • She is a trained psychoanalyst.
• Psychoanalytic / Psychoanalytical (adj): Relating to psychoanalysis.
  • The book presents a psychoanalytic interpretation of the myth.

Synonyms

• Analyse/Analyze: To examine in detail, though this is more general and not specific to the Freudian clinical method.
• Therapize (informal): To subject to psychological analysis or therapy, often used humorously or critically.

Related Phrases

• "to be on the couch": An informal idiom referring to undergoing psychoanalysis, as patients traditionally reclined on a couch during sessions.
  • He's been on the couch for years trying to work through his issues.

Học thuật

Verb

1. subject to psychoanalytic treatment
   • I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist

Từ đồng nghĩa

• analyze
• analyse
• psychoanalyze