psychoanalyticaladj.n.

1805 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1962) II. 2670 It requires a strong imagination as well as an accurate psycho-analytical understanding in order to be able to conceive the possibility, & to picture out the reality, of the passion at those Times for Jupiter, Apollo, &c/& the nature of the Faith.

1857 Russell's Mag. Nov. 163/2 The province he [sc. Poe] chose is the psycho-analytical. His heroes are monstrous reflections of his own heart in its despair, not in its peace.

1908 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 3 209 It would have added greatly to the interest of this question if a psycho~analytical investigation had been resorted to.

1927 Daily Express 20 June 13/4 A Vienna palmist gave a demonstration before the psycho-analytical clinic in Vienna.

1931 R. Campbell Georgiad i. 13 Nor would he dogmatise his pet perversions With psycho-analytical assertions.

1962 Lancet 22 Dec. 1311/1 He begins his book with an account of Freud's philosophical theories as a background to the later development of psychoanalytical concepts by the neo-Freudians.

1977 C. Storr Tales from Psychiatrist's Couch x. 104 The strict, psycho-analytical view that it is utterly improper for the analyst to have anything to do with the husbands, wives, parents, children..of his patients.

1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Aug. 92 If the statement seems a tad psychoanalytical, it's probably because Freud..is the daughter of Lucian Freud and the great-granddaughter of legendary shrink Sigmund.

1910 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 21 215 Every time we treat a neurotic psychoanalytically, there occurs in him the so-called phenomenon of transfer (Uebertragung).

1959 B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Pathol. iv. 145 Even the psychoanalytically inclined are beginning to allow a rather less rigid, and therefore less dismal attitude.

1991 J. Sayers Mothering Psychoanal. iv. iii. 160 Believing children in analysis should have a psychoanalytically informed upbringing, she, Dorothy, and Eva Rosenfeld set up a school in Eva's home for their children.