Associations to the word «Abreaction»

Wiktionary

ABREACTION, noun. (psychoanalysis) The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross. [First attested in the early 20th century.]

Dictionary definition

ABREACTION, noun. (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King