abreact
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From German abreagieren, from ab (“away from, off, down from”) + reagieren (“to react”)[1]
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
abreact (third-person singular simple present abreacts, present participle abreacting, simple past and past participle abreacted)
- (transitive, psychoanalysis) To eliminate previously repressed emotions by reliving past experiences. [First attested in the early 20th century.][2]
Translations [edit]
eliminate previously repressed emotions
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References [edit]
- ^ R:Webster NCD 1974
- ^ 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 8:
