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psychoanalysis
psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis refers to both a method developed by Sigmund Freud to explore mental processes through techniques such as free association, dream interpretation, and examining resistance and transference, and to the psychological theory Freud built from that clinical work.
Psychoanalysis refers to both a method developed by Sigmund Freud to explore mental processes through techniques such as free association, dream interpretation, and examining resistance and transference, and to the psychological theory Freud built from that clinical work. More broadly, the term can also mean analyzing the mind into its component parts.