psychoanalysis
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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
He went into psychoanalysis and found work writing for the CBS kiddie show “Terry Toons.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2025
Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
