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= Psycho-analysis =

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is a system of mental therapy developed by Sigmund Freud in Austria in 1894 and which depends upon the following practices for its effects: the patient is made to discourse (free associate) on and [[Definitions/Recall|recall]] his childhood for years while the practitioner effects a transfer of the patient’s [[Definitions/Personality|personality]] to his own and searches for hidden sexual incidents believed by Freud to be the only cause of [[Definitions/Aberration|aberration]]; the practitioner reads sexual [[Definitions/Significance|significance]] into all discourse and evaluates it for the patient along sexual [[Definitions/Lines|lines]]; the entirety of the cases of [[Definitions/Psycho-|psycho-]]analysis have never been tabulated and little or no testing has been done to establish the validity of the system. ([[Definitions/PAB|PAB]] 92)

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