Adjective
of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud
Source: WordNetNarcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. Thomas Szasz
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed. Anna Freud
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure. Hans Eysenck
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering. Roland Barthes
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies. Herbert Marcuse
The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts provide the real and sufficient explanation of sociological questions. Erich Fromm