单词 | abreaction |
释义 | abreactionn. Psychiatry. Discharge of the emotional energy associated with a psychic trauma that has been forgotten or repressed; the process of bringing such a trauma back to consciousness, esp. as a psychotherapeutic technique; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > relief > [noun] abreaction1909 catharsis1909 1909 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria i. 6 The ab-reaction (abreagiren)..is not the only form of discharge at the disposal of the normal psychic mechanism of the healthy person who has experienced a psychic trauma. 1926 W. McDougall Outl. Abnormal Psychol. 451 The assumption underlying the practice of Abreaction was that the forgotten or repressed ‘ideas’ were beset (besetzt) by a charge of emotional energy or libido; and that the process of Abreaction discharges this energy from the system. 1958 A. Huxley Brave New World Revisited (1959) 107 The process known in England as ‘abreaction therapy’, in America as ‘narcosynthesis’. 1977 Undercurrents June–July 27/2 Abreaction (the treatment for shell-shock) only discharges emotions that have been bottled up recently. 2005 Independent 24 Feb. (Review section) 7/4 Chris has little doubt that what I experienced was real. He points out that I had several ‘abreactions’—physical changes under hypnosis—during the procedure, which convinced him of my regression. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1909 |
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