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uk/ˈwɜːd ə.səʊ.siˌeɪ.ʃən/us/ˈwɝːd ə.soʊ.siˌeɪ.ʃən/a method sometimes used in psychoanalysis in which the person being treated says the first word they think of when a particular word is said, which may help to discover how parts of the mind work
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Science of psychology & psychoanalysis
- cognitive
- commit
- committal
- Freudian
- gestalt
- id
- inkblot test
- Jungian
- Oedipal
- psych
- psycho
- psychoanalyse
- psychological
- repression
- shock therapy
- shrink
- subliminal
- superego
- trance
- transference
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