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How to use psychoanalysis in a sentence

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

Examples of psychoanalysis by meaning

nounA family of theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that work to find connections among patients'...

  • 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
  • Psychoanalysis has sprung many surprises on us, performed more than one volte face before our indignant eyes.1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Psychoanalysis vs. Morality”, in Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer...
  • Psychoanalysis, the modern science of reading dreams, has taught us to take heed of these unsubstantial images.1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 8

More sentences with psychoanalysis

  • It is within our mental space what in psychoanalysis is called “the thing”.2006, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, Slavoj Žižek (actor). From the entry Hitchcockian
  • A New Age version of psychoanalysis, past-life therapy involves uncovering traumas from one's previous lives.2000, James Fieser, Moral Philosophy Through the Ages. From the entry past-life
  • To this extent, complaints about the pansexualizing perspective of both queer theory and psychoanalysis would be justified.2000, Tim Dean, Beyond Sexuality, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry pansexualize
  • In a sense, the future is the privileged domain of the miraculous for psychoanalysis.1991 [1990], John Forrester, The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry Augustinian
  • At its best, psychoanalysis is the classic therapeutic technique for exploring unconscious processes.1979 August 11, Lawrence Mass, “Psychiatry on Trial”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 8. From the entry messiah
  • Unlike psychoanalysis or psychiatry, the person (auditor) treating another person never evaluates for them.1963 February 11, C. C. Morley, “[Letter to Edward V. Long]”, in Invasions of Privacy (Government Agencies): Hearings Before the…. From the entry cognite
  • What’s offered is less class analysis than psychoanalysis.2019 August 8, William Davies, “The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour review – escape from dystopia”, in The Guardian. From the entry techlash
  • Because it is often confused with psychoanalysis, psychodynamics has at times been considered an outdated and outmoded approach to therapy.2015, David Capuzzi, Foundations of Couples, Marriage, and Family Counseling, page 152. From the entry therapy
  • Pick argues that the general rejection of psycho-history by practising historians has left the story of ‘historical’ psychoanalysis on the shelf.2012, Richard Overy, “The Mind of Evil”, in Literary Review, number 399. From the entry psychohistory
  • The smorgasbord of available therapies is already heavily laden with alternative psychotherapies without psychoanalysis adding further varieties of its own.2010, Charles Hanly, “Logic, Meaning and Truth in Psychoanalytic Research”, in Jorge Canestri, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Mary Target…. From the entry smorgasbord
  • Psychoanalysis taught him that anxiety was not something to be avoided but is the driving force which propels our intellectual questings.2002, Ariane Deluz, Suzette Heald, Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: An Encounter Through Culture. From the entry questing
  • And yet, psychoanalysis itself essays to enter into the domain of the future by undoing the Laplacean determinations the patient constructs for him or herself.1991 [1990], John Forrester, The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry Augustinian
  • This uncontrollable possibility—the possibility of a certain loss of control—can, perhaps, explain why the uncanny remains a marginal notion even within psychoanalysis itself.1982, Samuel Weber, The Legend of Freud, page 20. From the entry uncanny
  • As such, and unlike philosophy which has toyed with this self-definition, it is not good enough for psychoanalysis to be a smorgasbord of alternative ways of interpreting human nature.2010, Charles Hanly, “Logic, Meaning and Truth in Psychoanalytic Research”, in Jorge Canestri, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Mary Target…. From the entry smorgasbord
  • They range in length from several minutes to half an hour, and have a common thread of considering relationships in light of psychoanalysis and semiotic theory.1990 August 18, Laura Pierce, “The Boston Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Continues”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 6, page 10. From the entry videomaker
  • That anyone would willingly swap being the disher of easy criticism, second-guessing, amateur psychoanalysis, pious lectures and sundry other grief to become the dishee is probably cause for an intervention.2009 August 14, Jim Coyle, “Going from pulp to friction”, in Toronto Star. From the entry disher
  • Most were influenced by European social science, in particular by psychoanalysis and depth psychology, which offered more fruitful diagnostic methods than the tired formulas of Marxism and the class struggle.2006 August 6, Sam Tanenhaus, “The Education of Richard Hofstadter”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Sep 2015. From the entry depth psychology

Meaning of psychoanalysis

  1. noun A family of theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that work to find connections among patients' unconscious mental processes.

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Questions about psychoanalysis in a sentence

How do you use psychoanalysis in a sentence?
Psychoanalysis is used as a noun. For example: “To be sure, this much I may presume you do know, namely, that psychoanalysis is a method of treating nervous patients medically.”
What is a short sentence with psychoanalysis?
“What’s offered is less class analysis than psychoanalysis.”
What does psychoanalysis mean?
Psychoanalysis means a family of theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that work to find connections among patients' unconscious mental processes.

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