Freudian psychoanalysis refers to a specific type of treatment in which the "analysand" analytic patient verbalizes thoughts, including free associations, fantasies, and dreams, from which the analyst formulates the unconscious conflicts causing the patient's symptoms and character problems, and interprets them for the patient to create insight for resolution of the problems. From Wordnik.com. [Analysand verbalizes thoughts] Reference
This is not the project an analysand takes up in psychoanalysis. From Wordnik.com. [Plato on Friendship and Eros] Reference
The analysand only smells the cigar and hears my sighs of deep pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Early Thoughts on the Oedipus Complex] Reference
David O. Selznick's own experience as an analysand led him to make "Spellbound.". From Wordnik.com. [Cruise Control, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
His subjects were the hung-over train commuter, the pill-popping analysand, the indefatigable bed-hopper. From Wordnik.com. [The Audubon of Suburbia] Reference
The analysand threads his slow way through the labyrinth to find that the minotaur is himself and they had better come to terms. From Wordnik.com. [How's your Gestalt?] Reference
He said it took up to five or six hours for the analysand to talk themselves out, but that it seemed to have encouraging results. From Wordnik.com. [Patrick McGrath’s ‘Trauma’ « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
When the analysand insists of a dream character “It's not my mother”, the analyst silently translates, “So it is his mother!”. From Wordnik.com. [Contradiction] Reference
The larger, "background" image shows a psychoanalyst at his desk, his analysand stretched on a couch, a medicine cabinet in the corner and a photograph of Freud on the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery] Reference
This was a difficult process, and the yogin needed careful supervision at each step of the way by a teacher, just as the modern analysand needs the support of his or her analyst. From Wordnik.com. [Buddha]
I just started reading Hilda Doolittle's Tribute to Freud, which she wrote in the forties after two different sessions as an analysand with Sigmund Freud in Vienna in 1933 and then later in 1934. From Wordnik.com. [The World Beyond] Reference
That all of us fall prey to the seduction of jargon is too well known just as the analysand enchanted by his own voice talks it out all or the Khayal singer who often happens to be the last person in the auditorium. From Wordnik.com. [Seduction of jargon] Reference
Kristeva also argues that the psychoanalytic session, especially when the analyst is invested in the process of self-creation of the analysand, provides a needed space for women to begin to articulate their identity. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Feminism] Reference
In both her August 4 New York Times Magazine cover story about being a serial analysand, and in an article in the same publication on May 10, 2009 (from which the "wish to die" quotation comes), Merkin shows the courage of a burn victim on a tightrope. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Baudo Sillerman: Reading The New Yorker , Thinking About Daphne Merkin] Reference
One might think of the psychoanalytic process of dream interpretation as a staging of the ekphrastic scene in which the manifest visual content of the dream is the ekphrastic object, the analysand is the ekphrastic speaker, and the analyst is the reader/interpreter. From Wordnik.com. [Notes, Mitchell, "Ekphrasis and the Other"] Reference
Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression, and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient, technically referred to as an “analysand”, and a psychoanalyst. From Wordnik.com. [Five People Born on May 6 | myFiveBest] Reference
Yes, in truth, once inside you had to literally chop your way forward, expecting the worst, not lose your cool for one single moment or turn your back to or let yourself be seduced by the lovely voice of the analysand, because, like a huldra she could inveigle you to into entering marches out of which you would never by yourself, find your way out. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Way to go in building that analyst / analysand trust!. From Wordnik.com. [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference
And can illusory relief by art / communication-the talking cure in which Wena becomes the analysand, Marisol the mute analyst - resolve material, historically structured adversities in our everyday life?. From Wordnik.com. [Political Affairs Magazine] Reference
This would logically appear to be a technical psychological coinage useful for referring to a personality or condition that is excessively rigid or stubborn. analysand Another term from psychoanalese: one of its words for ` patient. '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1] Reference
She sits on her brown plaid sofa—once my father’s analysand couch—and stares off into the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Tessie and Pearlie] Reference
He was my analysand during the SLDC time. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Nowhere]
Chester Delaney writes, "analysand ... was obviously derived directly from the - nd marker of the active gerund in Latin, which suggests the therapist. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2] Reference
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