abreact
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Partial calque of 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]
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]eliminate previously repressed emotions
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References
[edit]- ^ “abreact” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abreact”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.