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Definition of Abreact
1. Verb. Discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization.
Generic synonyms: Allay, Ease, Relieve, Still
Derivative terms: Abreaction
Definition of Abreact
1. Verb. (context: transitive psychoanalysis) To eliminate previously repressed emotions by reliving past experiences. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abreact
1. to release repressed emotions by reliving the original traumatic experience [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Abreact
1. 1. To show strong emotion while reliving a previous traumatic experience. 2. To discharge or release repressed emotion. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abreact
Literary usage of Abreact
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"... the satisfaction of the punishers themselves who in this manner abreact their
own pent-up feelings. The ceremony, whether sacrificial or punitive, ..."
2. Proceedings of the United States Naval Instituteby United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1891)
"... is to keep fully abreact of the times by promptly Introducing improvements
and new processes that contribute to superior and more economical production, ..."
3. Religion and the New Psychology: A Psycho-analytic Study of Religion by Walter Samuel Swisher (1920)
"... the Catholic confessional is of inestimable benefit in the assistance it gives
the individual to abreact his painful emotions and sublimate. ..."
4. Voyages of Discovery and Research Within the Arctic Regions, from the Year by John Barrow (1846)
"... of fi ve-nnd-twenty, wnrn drawn dp in a Une abreact, and «till advanced »lowly
toward n*. As w« approached nearer they ..."
5. Psycho-analysis and the War Neuroses by Sándor Ferenczi (1921)
"... likewise from hypnosis and other suggestive means, but allowed the patients
to abreact in the waking state and sought to make intelligible to them by a ..."
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