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psychoanalysis

[sahy-koh-uh-nal-uh-sis] / ˌsaɪ koʊ əˈnæl ə sɪs /
NOUN
psychotherapy
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This idea echoes a long-standing hypothesis in sleep research -- and even in classical psychoanalysis -- that dreams may act as "guardians of sleep."

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

To hear them engaging in psychoanalysis you could be forgiven for thinking that they've spent as much prep-time for Rome in therapy as they have on the training ground.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

In later years he went into psychoanalysis, which cured him, some say, of his sense of humor, for he was no longer funny afterward, though others maintain that psychotherapy may have kept him from suicide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Desperate to restore his memory and prove his innocence, she brings him to her own analyst for emergency psychoanalysis, hoping a single session can restore the patient to reality.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2024

“About what? About Freud? The one time I mentioned a Freudian theory in class, all I got out of Appleman was that dogmatic psychoanalysis was related to psychology as magic was related to science. ‘

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok