abreact
English
Etymology
Partial translation of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German abreagieren, from ab (“away from, off, down from”) + reagieren (“to react”).[1]
Pronunciation
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Verb
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
eliminate previously repressed emotions
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References
- ^ R:Webster NCD 1974
- ^ 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.