abreact

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Etymology[edit]

Partial calque of German abreagieren, from ab (away from, off, down from) + reagieren (to react).[1]

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abreact (third-person singular simple present abreacts, present participle abreacting, simple past and past participle abreacted)

  1. (transitive, psychoanalysis) To eliminate previously repressed emotions by reliving past experiences. [First attested in the early 20th century.][2]

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  1. ^ “abreact” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
  2. ^ 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.

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