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1898 H. Ellis in Alienist & Neurologist 19 610 The influence of fear is not denied by Breuer and Freud, but they have found that careful psychic analysis frequently reveals that the shock of a commonplace ‘fear’ is really rooted in a lesion of the sexual emotions.

1901 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. I. 43/2 The process of using introspection for purposes of analysis has become a recognized method called analysis or introspective analysis.

1907 Brain 30 179 In hysteria with very little trouble the complex may be revealed by analysis, and with a good prospect of therapeutic advantage.

1912 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria (ed. 2) iv. 76 It is very difficult to examine a case of neurosis before it has been subjected to a thorough analysis.

1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie Pref. 8 Much of my progress in analysis was accomplished in spite of my analyst who did not like my ‘orientation’, as he called it.

1975 S. H. Foulkes Group-Analytic Psychotherapy viii. 169 A patient, after an analysis, needs some time—half a year or so, before he can really be said to have ‘finished with his analysis’.

2006 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 8 May 6 It became fashionable to be neurotic, to be in analysis and to be able to afford it. And..we scarcely noticed that this therapy which took so long and cost so much wasn't curing anybody.