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Psychology Terms - Abreaction
n. In psychoanalysis, the release or discharge of emotional energy subsequent to the recollection of a suppressed painful memory. It may arise spontaneously or during psychotherapy, particularly under hypnosis, and can result in catharsis. The therapeutic technique was identified by Austrian physician Josef Breuer (1842–1925) between 1880 and 1882, and throughout the early development of psychoanalysis, it was considered inherently therapeutic. Refer to the principle of constancy. Derived from the German term abreagieren, meaning to abreact or metaphorically to let off steam, and from the Latin prefix ab, meaning from, combined with the German reagieren, meaning to respond. The term was coined in 1893 by Breuer and Sigmund Freud in their article ‘On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena: Preliminary Communication’ (Standard Edition, II, pp. 3–17).
n. In psychoanalysis, the release or discharge of emotional energy subsequent to the recollection of a suppressed painful memory. It may arise spontaneously or during psychotherapy, particularly under hypnosis, and can result in catharsis. The therapeutic technique was identified by Austrian physician Josef Breuer (1842–1925) between 1880 and 1882, and throughout the early development of psychoanalysis, it was considered inherently therapeutic. Refer to the principle of constancy. Derived from the German term abreagieren, meaning to abreact or metaphorically to let off steam, and from the Latin prefix ab, meaning from, combined with the German reagieren, meaning to respond. The term was coined in 1893 by Breuer and Sigmund Freud in their article ‘On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena: Preliminary Communication’ (Standard Edition, II, pp. 3–17).
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