psychoanalysis

English

Etymology

From psycho- +‎ analysis, after German Psychoanalyse.

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.

Related terms

• 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)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: psykoanalyse m

  Nynorsk: psykoanalyse m

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