Psychoanalytic
(adjective)
- Of or relating to psychoanalysis or its methods and principles.
- Relating to or using the theories and methods of psychoanalysis.
Origin:
From psychoanalyse + -ic.
Examples:
- The psychoanalytic session helped her to understand her childhood traumas.
- He underwent psychoanalytic therapy to better understand his emotional issues.
- The book is a psychoanalytic study of the relationship between language and psychoanalysis.
- Many of the theories developed by psychoanalysis have been incorporated into other branches of psychoanalytic psychology.
- The psychoanalytic approach to understanding the mind is based on the idea that unconscious thoughts and feelings influence behavior.