Catharsis vs. Psychoanalysis

Catharsisnoun

(drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).

Catharsisnoun

Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.

Catharsisnoun

A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.

Catharsisnoun

(psychology) A therapeutic technique to relieve tension by re-establishing the association of an emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and then eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction).

Catharsisnoun

(medicine) Purging of the digestive system.

Catharsisnoun

A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.

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The process of relieving an abnormal excitement by reëstablishing the association of the emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and of eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction).

Catharsisnoun

(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions

Catharsisnoun

purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels

Catharsis

Catharsis (from Greek κάθαρσις, katharsis, meaning or or ) is the purification and purgation of emotions—particularly pity and fear—through art or any extreme change in emotion that results in renewal and restoration. It is a metaphor originally used by Aristotle in the Poetics, comparing the effects of tragedy on the mind of a spectator to the effect of catharsis on the body.

Psychoanalysisnoun

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

Psychoanalysisnoun

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.

Psychoanalysisnoun

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.

Psychoanalysisnoun

An integrated set of theories of human personality development, motivation, and behavior based on a body of observations.

Psychoanalysisnoun

One of several schools of psychotherapy, such as jungian psychoanalysis or freudian psychoanalysis.

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a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud;

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis (from Greek: ψυχή, psykhḗ, 'soul' + ἀνάλυσις, análysis, 'investigate') is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques that deal in part with the unconscious mind, and which together form a method of treatment for mental disorders. The discipline was established in the early 1890s by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, who retained the term psychoanalysis for his own school of thought.