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Examples of abreaction
abreaction
Abreaction is an emotional release or discharge following recall of a painful experience.
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Psychiatrist Anthony Storr claimed that primal therapy techniques have much in common with abreaction.
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Next, Wallis discusses the appeal of the Scientology practice of Auditing, and compares this to abreaction therapy.
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Abreaction occurs as a normal part of our daily experience, but in trauma, the memory is not abreacted and instead remains unconscious.
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It should be noted that abreaction or catharsis as used by other psychologists does not mean a false or unconnected feeling.
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Therefore the early treatment techniques, including hypnotism and abreaction, were designed to make the unconscious conscious in order to relieve the pressure and the apparently resulting symptoms.
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- Catharsis: (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
- (abreact) discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization
- Abreaction is a psychoanalytical term for reliving an experience in order to purge it of its emotional excesses; a type of catharsis. Sometimes it is a method of becoming conscious of repressed traumatic events.
- (Abreact) Hypnosis is a mental state (according to "state theory") or imaginative role-enactment (according to "non-state theory"). It is usually induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which is commonly composed of a long series of preliminary instructions and suggestions. ...
- The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross
- (abreact) (psychoanalysis) To eliminate previously repressed emotions by reliving past experiences
- (abreact) verb - to release (repressed emotions) by acting out, as in words, behavior, or the imagination, the situation causing the conflict
- The expression and emotional discharge of unconscious material, usually during treatment.
- In freudian psychoanalysis, an episode of emotional release or catharsis associated with the conscious recollection of repressed unpleasant experiences.
