Synonyms for psychoanalysis
ˌsaɪ koʊ əˈnæl ə sɪspsy·cho·ana·ly·sis

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1. psychoanalysis, analysis, depth psychologynoun

   a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud

   "his physician recommended psychoanalysis"

   Synonyms:
   depth psychology, analysis, analytic thinking

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1. psychoanalysis

   Synonyms:
   See Freudian analysis, Jungian analysis. Cf Psychotherapy
   

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1. Karen Horney:

   Fortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

2. Norman O. Brown:

   In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

3. Thomas Szasz:

   Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.

4. Marlon Brando:

   Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

5. Germaine Greer:

   Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.