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abreaction Psychiatry.|æbrɪˈækʃən|
[f. ab- + reaction, after G. abreagierung.]
The liberation by revival and expression of the emotion associated with forgotten or repressed ideas of the event that first caused it. Hence abreˈact v., to eliminate by abreaction; abreˈactive a., of this kind of treatment.
[1895J. Breuer & S. Freud Studien über Hysterie iv. 223 Heilung hysterischer Symptome durch..Abreagiren.] 1912A. A. Brill tr. Freud's Sel. Papers Hysteria (ed. 2) 6 The ab-reaction (abreagiren)..is not the only form of discharge at the disposal of the normal psychic mechanism of the healthy person who has experienced a psychic trauma. The memory of the trauma even where it has not been abreacted enters into the great complex of the association. 1916C. E. Long tr. Jung's Anal. Psychol. 242 When the abreaction takes place under hypnotism, or with other magical accessories. Ibid., The neurosis is caused by trauma. The trauma is abreacted. 1926W. McDougall Outl. Abnormal Psychol. 451 The assumption underlying the practice of Abreaction was that the forgotten or repressed ‘ideas’ were beset (besetzt) by a charge of emotional energy or libido; and that the process of Abreaction discharges this energy from the system. 1926Contemp. Rev. Aug. 191 It is claimed that they [sc. early memories] can be traced down through links of emotion—called ‘ab-reaction’—from the conscious mind into the so-called unconscious stratum. 1944Brenman & Gill Hypnotherapy (1947) iv. 72 Although the ‘abreactive method’ has been used extensively in World War II, the alteration in consciousness which is necessary for such a ‘re-living’ has usually been brought about by drugs. 1958A. Huxley Brave New World Revisited (1959) 107 The process known in England as ‘abreaction therapy’, in America as ‘narcosynthesis’. |