cathartic

“Repair is not this fully cathartic moment,” says Rachel Haack, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Reno, Nev., who works with families dealing with estrangement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

"Those moments don't come up very often with long-running shows so I thought it might be cathartic and a nice way to say goodbye as a writer," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

But when he finally bursts with a cathartic eleventh-hour speech about the inaccuracy of Krick’s historical forecast, Eisenhower listens.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

I cannot think of another who would call for, and take such cathartic pleasure in, Helen Mirren’s reading of “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

And one could only be left to sit back and witness this spectacle, waiting to see if anything brilliant or cathartic would come about.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

Castor oil and calomel are drastic cathartics, should be taken only on advice of a physician.

From Time Magazine Archive

Appendicitis is another situation where cathartics may not be used without discretion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Children and infants present difficulties because they cannot explain their com plaints and because parents too often give destructive cathartics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eighteen years ago, before the profession in general had really begun its modern investigation of cathartics, the American Medical Association published a handbook on the subject written by Dr. Fantus.

From Time Magazine Archive

But such cathartics are to be interposed at proper intervals, as are most proper for evacuating thick and acrid humors.

From Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Richard Mead