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Meanings of
abreaction
in English
Portuguese
catarse
Catalan
catarsi
Spanish
catársis
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(Psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions.
catharsis
katharsis
Portuguese
catarse
Usage of
abreaction
in English
1
This seems to after-shadow the modern views on intrapsychical conflict and
abreaction
.
2
He said only that the command might be removed by a reverse
abreaction
.
3
To you, this is just
abreaction
or acting-out or something clinical.
4
Often the conversion represented a psychological
abreaction
,
an unhealthy swing from extreme desolation to elation.
5
I can still feel and experience, to the point of
abreaction
,
how awful and disorienting it felt.
6
Augustine's conversion seems like a psychological
abreaction
,
after which the convert falls exhausted into the arms of God, all passion spent.
7
Abreaction
is the process of reliving, in detail, an event.
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Frequent collocations
psychological abreaction
just abreaction
reverse abreaction
Translations for
abreaction
Portuguese
catarse
Catalan
catarsi
Spanish
catársis
abreacción
Abreaction
through the time