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psychanalysis

psychanalysis is the alternative form of psychoanalysis.

Meaning of psychoanalysis

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.
    • To be sure, this much I may presume you do know, namely, that psychoanalysis is a method of treating nervous patients medically.1920, Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

Forms of psychanalysis

pluralpsychanalyses

Questions about psychanalysis

What is psychanalysis the alternative form of?
Psychanalysis is the alternative form of psychoanalysis.

Words near psychanalysis in the dictionary

  1. psychal
  2. psychalgia
  3. psychalgias
  4. psychalgic
  5. psychanalyses
  6. psychanalysis
  7. psychanalysist
  8. psychanalysists
  9. psychanalyst
  10. psychanalysts
  11. psychanalytic

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