Associations to the word «Abreaction»

Wiktionary

ABREACTION, noun. (psychoanalysis) The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross. [First attested in the early 20th century.]

Dictionary definition

ABREACTION, noun. (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca