Definition of psychoanalytic
: of, relating to, or employing psychoanalysis or its principles and techniques
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Fittingly, both women offer psychoanalytic explanations for their lifelong fascination with the macabre.
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Tuesday was the new attendees’ cocktail party, where the mood was almost effervescent, indicating that those in the psychoanalytic community don’t appear to have social anxieties — or perhaps have learned to cope with them.
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Still, Annihilation’s commitment to older psychoanalytic (and deconstructionist) models for the self and its inexpressible shadows makes this a readily accessible drama of emotion.
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Listening to Clinton relive her defeat is like entering the psychoanalytic situation, in which the patient strings together unruly bits of personal history while the therapist pays respectful attention.
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But Crews insists that psychoanalytic theory is not science, but fiction, and that Freud’s literary prowess is precisely the secret of its success.
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In the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud introduced narcissism as part of his psychoanalytic theory.
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The psychoanalytic association has psychiatrist members, but also includes psychologists and other types of mental health counselors.
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As forward as the song is, there is sort of a witty, cryptic, psychoanalytic undertone to it also.
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First Known Use of psychoanalytic
1906
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medical Definition of psychoanalytic
: of, relating to, or employing psychoanalysis or its principles and techniques
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