psychoanalytic

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Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ)

Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der.

English psycho-

English analytic

English psychoanalytic

From psycho- + analytic.

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Adjective

psychoanalytic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to psychoanalysis.
   • 1974 February 2, Eric Rofes, “For Leathermen Who Have Considered S&M”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 19:

     Despite the accuracy of his observations, Rechy's political analysis of S&M, although it includes some good insights, is limited, moralistic, and tainted with psychoanalytic bias, and makes the leather scene into a place of warped madness and sickness.

   • 2000 May 28, Peter Wolson, “A World of Psychophobia”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 May 2025:

     For example, psychoanalytic patients often resist remembering their childhood because they fear they will end up blaming their parents for their problems and feel guilty for betraying them.

   • 2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 27 September 2022:

     It then told me it was trained in cognitive behavioral therapy, which it said was an “effective way to challenge how you’re thinking about things.” Unlike psychodynamic or psychoanalytic therapies, C.B.T. argues that our emotions and moods are influenced by our patterns of thinking; change those patterns, the theory goes, and you’ll start to feel better.

Synonyms

• psychoanalytical

Derived terms

• antipsychoanalytic
• neuropsychoanalytic
• nonpsychoanalytic
• postpsychoanalytic

Translations

of or relating to psychoanalysis

• Bulgarian: психоаналитичен (psihoanalitičen)
• Catalan: psicoanalític
• Czech: psychoanalytický (cs)
• Esperanto: psikanaliza
• Finnish: psykoanalyyttinen (fi)
• French: psychanalytique (fr)
• Galician: psicanalítico (gl)
• Hungarian: pszichoanalitikus (hu)
• Italian: psicoanalitico
• Spanish: psicoanalítico