: to treat by means of psychoanalysis
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His mother, Olive Caldwell, was psychoanalyzed by Carl Jung and Anna Freud.
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That worries employees who are wary of being psychoanalyzed by software, and some employment lawyers fret that AI programs might contain biases that could lead to workplace discrimination.
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Ugh, this is just getting tedious: Now Becca's psychoanalyzing Arie and Lauren's relationship.
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Frum does not attempt to psychoanalyze Trump, but the author pointedly identifies his shortcomings, especially his one-way view of loyalty.
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Art lovers may have to transform their analysis of art—spending hours interpreting a stylistic choice or psychoanalyzing a creator’s intent—when such questions of intent are put to the black box of an artificial neural network.
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Within the span of two minutes, these people had psychoanalyzed my porn habits and actually taught me something about myself.
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My partner considers her a killjoy who psychoanalyzes him too much; others in our group have complained about her mooching.
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And President Carter, with his Malaise Speech in the late '70s, he was always psychoanalyzed by some of his critics.
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First Known Use of psychoanalyze
1911
PSYCHOANALYZE Defined for English Language Learners
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: to treat the mental and emotional problems of (a patient) by having the patient talk about dreams, feelings, memories, etc. : to treat (someone) by means of psychoanalysis
Medical Dictionary
psychoanalyze
transitive verb
psy·cho·an·a·lyze
variants:
or British
psychoanalyse
play
\-ˈan-ᵊl-ˌīz\
psychoanalyzed
or British psychoanalysed;
psychoanalyzing
or British psychoanalysing
: to treat by means of psychoanalysis
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