(Psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions.
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.
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