psychoanalysis

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, after German Psychoanalyse, with surface analysis of psycho- + analysis.

noun

  1. A family of theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that work to find connections among patients' unconscious mental processes.
    To be sure, this much I may presume you do know, namely, that psychoanalysis is a method of treating nervous patients medically. 1920, Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

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