psychoanalytic
adjective
Examples of psychoanalytic in a Sentence
Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
From the depths of psychoanalytic insights to theological perspectives and the scientific understanding of human physiology, this discussion provides a holistic exploration of the essence of humanity.
—Photovogue, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2023
Pearce, Newton’s fourth wife, was a psychiatrist doing her psychoanalytic training, while Newton, who had no formal training as a therapist, worked in the bursar’s office.
—Nellie Hermann, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
The book cleverly draws you into the characters, motivations, and delusions of the founders of the Sullivan Institute, a radical community created in 1957 around an offshoot of psychoanalytic theory.
—Hannah E. Meyers, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
Both had worked at the William Alanson White Institute, one of New York’s leading psychoanalytic institutes in the mid-1940s.
—Nellie Hermann, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
For Freud himself, textiles were a potent source of psychoanalytic metaphor—the strands to gather, the thread to follow out of the labyrinth.
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
Related experiments likewise yielded results that seemed to corroborate classic psychoanalytic theory.
—Gillian Silverman, The New Yorker, 15 July 2023
In the middle of the room sits Freud’s desk, still cluttered with his favorite objects, and on the far wall is the psychoanalytic couch, draped in an Oriental rug.
—Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
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1906, in the meaning defined above
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