psychoanalysis

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psychoanalysis

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

noun psychoanalyses

  1. countable, uncountable A family of theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that work to find connections among patients' unconscious mental processes. To be sure, this much I may presume you do know, namely, that psychoanalysis is a method of treating nervous patients medically.

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Closest in meaning: depth psychology, analysis, psychoanalytic treatment, psychodynamic therapy, psychoanalytic therapy, talking cure, freudian psychology, psychological analysis, analytic psychology, psychodynamics, psychotherapy, psychanalysis, psychotheory, psychoanalytics, psychopractice, individual psychology

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noun family of psychological theories

Españolpsicoanálisis
日本語精神分析 seishin bunseki
中文精神分析 jīngshén fēnxi
Portuguêspsicanálise
Françaispsychanalyse
DeutschPsychoanalyse
Italianopsicanalisi, psicoanalisi
Ελληνικάψυχανάλυση psychanálysi
Românăpsihanaliză
Русскийпсихоана́лиз psixoanáliz
Tiếng Việtphân tâm học

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@misc{psychoanalysis_2026,
  title = {psychoanalysis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/psychoanalysis},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}