psychoanalysis

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: psy=cho=a=nal=y=sis

CIDE DICTIONARY

psychoanalysis, n. 

•  A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis and treatment pf psychoneuroses, based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939) of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that neurosis is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental history, effort being made to bring unconsciuos and preconscious material to consciousness; the methods include analysis of transferance and resistance. In some variants, stress is laid upon the dream life, and of treatment by means of suggestion.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  The theory of human psychology which is the foundation for the psychoanalytic therapy, which explores the relation between conscious and unconscious mental processes in motivating human behavior and causing neuroses.  [PJC]
•  An integrated set of theories of human personality development, motivation, and behavior based on a body of observations.  [PJC]
•  One of several schools of psychotherapy, such as jungian psychoanalysis or freudian psychoanalysis.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

psychoanalysis, n. a therapeutic method of treating mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind.

Derivative

psychoanalyse v.tr. psychoanalyst n. psychoanalytic adj. psychoanalytical adj. psychoanalytically adv.

THESAURUS

psychoanalysis

Adlerian psychology, Freudian psychology, Freudianism, Gestalt psychology, Horneyan psychology, Jungian psychology, Pavlovian psychology, Reichian psychology, Skinnerian psychology, Watsonian psychology, analysis, analytical psychology, apperceptionism, association psychology, associationism, behaviorism, behavioristic psychology, configurationism, depth interview, depth psychology, dianetics, dream analysis, dream symbolism, group analysis, interpretation of dreams, mental chemistry, metapsychology, orgone theory, psychanalysis, psychoanalytic method, psychoanalytic theory, psychoanalytic therapy, psychognosis, psychognosy, psychology of depths, stimulus-response psychology, structuralism, the couch