Example sentences for: psychoanalysis

How can you use “psychoanalysis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Indeed, what distinguishes psychoanalysis is that it can show us the ways in which a life is not merely the effect of its causes (biology, parents, etc.).

  • Rebelling against conservative religion under the dual influences of surrealism and psychoanalysis, Borduas led the school of Québec Automatistes, represented here with outstanding works by Jean-Paul Riopelle, born in 1923.

  • The aging analysts packed into the auditorium, sweating through their dark clothes in the September heat wave (only a small desk fan recycled the stale air), would have confirmed the Berkeley English professor and professional Freud-basher's darkest suspicions about psychoanalysis as a cult of personality.

  • "In economics, as in psychoanalysis, understanding is the first step towards a cure.

  • Although its philosophy has been taken over by the field of psychiatry (in which I include psychoanalysis), the idea of shriving oneself of fears and other besetting difficulties has its roots--as far as Western culture is concerned--in the confessional, though it seems likely that reflexes of that procedure could be discovered in profound Eastern religions if not in shamanistic practices.


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