Abreaction (Noun)
Meaning
(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- Through a controlled environment and guidance, the patient underwent a safe abreaction to overcome their long-suppressed emotions related to childhood trauma.
- This breakthrough moment allowed for a successful abreaction and an overwhelming release of years' worth of built-up frustration.
- Cathartic crying sessions triggered a gradual abreaction as her psyche freed itself of anxiety built over months of continuous pressure.
- Over time and under her doctor's careful watch, Emma reached the therapeutic state where a liberating abreaction happened to reduce emotional intensity associated with bad memories.
- According to some schools of psychoanalytic thought, triggering such abreaction via heightened expressions or wild impulses results in necessary detoxifying healing procedures to work well within personality balancing psychoanalysis contexts.