Syn: catharsis, katharsis [Webster 1913 Suppl. WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
ABRÉACTION — Terme utilisé en psychiatrie et en psychothérapie et qui traduit l’allemand Abreagiren , mot inconnu sans doute avant Breuer et Freud. Dans le sens le plus général, l’abréaction désigne toute décharge émotionnelle qui permet à un sujet… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Abreaction — is a psychoanalytical term for reliving an experience in order to purge it of its emotional excesses; a type of catharsis. Sometimes it is a method of becoming conscious of repressed traumatic events.Early in his career, psychoanalyst Carl Jung… … Wikipedia
Abreaction — Abréaction En psychanalyse, on appelle abréaction la réduction de la tension émotive lorsque l affect et la verbalisation du souvenir font irruption en même temps à la conscience. Des gestes et des paroles explicitent l expérience qui a donné… … Wikipédia en Français
abreaction — abreaction, abreaction therapy A term used by psychoanalysts to refer to the process of releasing repressed emotions by reliving in the imagination a previous negative experience. Sigmund Freud , in his early work, argued that the roots of… … Dictionary of sociology
abreaction — index catharsis Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
abreaction — [ab΄rē ak′shən] n. [ AB + REACTION, transl. of Ger abreagierung] Psychoanalysis the release of emotions as the result of recalling or reliving a traumatic, repressed experience with which they are associated: cf. CATHARSIS abreact vt. abreactive… … English World dictionary
Abréaction — En psychanalyse, on appelle abréaction la réduction de la tension émotive lorsque l affect et la verbalisation du souvenir font irruption en même temps à la conscience. Des gestes et des paroles explicitent l expérience qui a donné naissance à… … Wikipédia en Français
abreaction — noun Etymology: part translation of German Abreagierung catharsis, from ab off, away + Reagierung reaction Date: 1912 the expression and emotional discharge of unconscious material (as a repressed idea or emotion) by verbalization … New Collegiate Dictionary
abreaction — abreactive /ab ree ak tiv/, adj. /ab ree ak sheuhn/, n. Psychoanal. release of emotional tension achieved through recalling a repressed traumatic experience. [1910 15; AB + REACTION, on the model of G Abreagierung] * * * … Universalium
abreaction — noun The re living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross … Wiktionary
