abreaction
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Modeled on German abreagierung, from ab (“away from”) + reagierung (“reaction”).[1]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
abreaction (plural abreactions)
- (psychoanalysis) The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross. [First attested in the early 20th century.][2]
Translations [edit]
psychoanalysis
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References [edit]
- ^ 1976 [1909], Gove, Philip Babcock editor, Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged, Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co., ISBN 0-87779-101-5, page 5:
- ^ 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:
