psychoanalysis

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Etymology

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

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Noun

psychoanalysis (countable and uncountable, plural psychoanalyses)

1. A family of theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that work to find connections among patients' unconscious mental processes
   • 1920, Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis:

     To be sure, this much I may presume you do know, namely, that psychoanalysis is a method of treating nervous patients medically.

   • 1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Psychoanalysis vs. Morality”, in Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 9:

     Psychoanalysis has sprung many surprises on us, performed more than one volte face before our indignant eyes.

Hypernyms

• psychotherapy

 

Derived terms

• psychoanalyst
• psychoanalytic
• psychoanalytical

 

Related terms

• ethnopsychoanalysis
• neuropsychoanalysis
• psychoanalyst
• psychoanalytic
• psychoanalytical

 

Translations

family of psychological theories

• Catalan: psicoanàlisi (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 精神分析 (zh) (jīngshén fēnxi)

  Min Nan: cheng-sîn-hun-sek

• Czech: psychoanalýza f
• Esperanto: psikanalizo
• Estonian: psühhoanalüüs
• Finnish: psykoanalyysi (fi)
• French: psychanalyse (fr) f
• Galician: psicanálise (gl) f
• German: Psychoanalyse (de) f
• Greek: ψυχανάλυση (el) f (psychanálysi)
• Hungarian: pszichoanalízis (hu)
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• Icelandic: sálgreining f
• Italian: psicanalisi (it) f, psicoanalisi (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: psykoanalyse m

  Nynorsk: psykoanalyse m

• Polish: psychoanaliza (pl) f
• Portuguese: psicanálise (pt) f
• Romanian: psihanaliză (ro) f
• Russian: психоана́лиз (ru) m (psixoanáliz)
• Spanish: psicoanálisis (es) m
• Swedish: psykoanalys (sv) c
• Telugu: మనోవిశ్లేషణ (manōviślēṣaṇa)
• Turkish: psikanaliz (tr)
• Yiddish: פּסיכאָאַנאַליז m (psikhoanaliz)