noun a psychoanalytic term for the release of emotional tension achieved through recalling a repressed traumatic experience
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Abreaction is a process of reliving past traumatic experiences in order to release associated emotions and achieve healing.
Abreaction is often used in therapy sessions to help patients process and overcome past traumas.
Counselors may use abreaction techniques to help clients confront and work through unresolved emotional issues.
In psychoanalytic therapy, abreaction is used to help patients gain insight into their unconscious thoughts and emotions.
Abreaction can be a key component of hypnotherapy sessions, allowing patients to access and address buried emotions.
Abreaction is a common method used in trauma treatment to help individuals process and integrate traumatic memories.
In literature, abreaction may be used as a plot device to reveal repressed memories or emotions in characters, leading to a cathartic release.
In psychology, abreaction refers to the process of reliving and expressing repressed emotions or memories as a means of therapeutic healing and resolution of psychological trauma.
Therapists may use abreaction techniques to help clients process and release pent-up emotions related to past traumatic experiences.
Hypnotherapists may induce abreaction in clients under hypnosis to help them confront and release subconscious emotional conflicts or trauma.