abreactv.
/ˌabrɪˈakt/, U.S. /ˌæbriˈæk(t)/ Psychiatry.
transitive. To subject (a psychic trauma) to abreaction; to treat by abreaction.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > relief > eliminate by abreaction [verb (transitive)]
abreact1909
1909 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria i. 6 The memory of the trauma even where it has not been ab-reacted enters into the great complex of the association.
1961 A. Huxley Let. 4 Aug. (1969) 918 There are, of course, early traumas involved. Can you dig them out and abreact them?
1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 383/2 Following physical investigation it was decided to explore and abreact him by means of hypnosis, and it quickly became apparent that he was much disturbed by a single war-time incident.
1993 H. Gardner Creating Minds iii. 59 [The cure] brings to an end the operative force of the idea which was not abreacted in the first instance, by allowing its strangulated affect to find a way out through speech.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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