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abreact
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ab·re·act  (br-kt)
tr.v. ab·re·act·ed, ab·re·act·ing, ab·re·acts
To release (repressed emotions) by acting out, as in words, behavior, or the imagination, the situation causing the conflict.
[Translation of German abreagieren : ab-, away + reagieren, to react.]
abre·action n.
abreact [ˌæbrɪˈækt]
vb
(Psychoanalysis) (tr) Psychoanal to alleviate (emotional tension) through abreaction
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Verb1.abreact - discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalizationabreact - discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization
depth psychology, psychoanalysis, analysis - a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis"
allay, still, ease, relieve - lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears"
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vt (Psych) → abreagieren
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Abreacting feelings Children can only experience their feelings fully when there is a caregiver available to accept and support the expression of those feelings (Miller, 1981).
Corrective emotional experience in the therapeutic process by Zimberoff, Diane / Journal of Heart Centered Therapies
Normals, who are more tuned to what is happening around them, for expediency will show greater suppression of affect during the day abreacting them during sleep in dreams.
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That wounded ego state can be dramatically healed by retrieving it for re-experience in age regression, abreacting the experience, and allowing a means of reintegration and transformation of the trauma experience into a physically corrected experience of empowerment (van der Kolk & Greenberg, 1987).
Ego States in Heart-Centered therapies by Zimberoff, Diane / Journal of Heart Centered Therapies
 
 
 
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