How to Use psychoanalytic in a Sentence

psychoanalytic

adjective

• For Freud himself, textiles were a potent source of psychoanalytic metaphor—the strands to gather, the thread to follow out of the labyrinth.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• In the middle of the room sits Freud’s desk, still cluttered with his favorite objects, and on the far wall is the psychoanalytic couch, draped in an Oriental rug.
  — Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
• At the time, psychoanalytic ideas still guided the treatment of the mentally ill.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2014
• As forward as the song is, there is sort of a witty, cryptic, psychoanalytic undertone to it also.
  — Ella Jayes, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2017
• More than any of that, this movie is intensely psychoanalytic.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022
• To the annoyance no doubt of many a psychoanalytic patient, the very interaction between the two becomes the subject-matter of the therapy.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2011
• While Brazil is a country with a robust psychoanalytic culture — for those who can afford it — as in so many places there remains a stigma surrounding mental illness.
  — Sadie Stein, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• From Freud’s time, his operas have been seen as stagings of the dramas that dominate psychoanalytic theory.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2017
• The emergence of non-psychoanalytic accounts of sex also threatened the prestige of analysis.
  — Warren Breckman, New Republic, 1 June 2017
• Sadly, this does not add up to a relationship from which searing psychoanalytic insight is gained.
  — Jd Heyman, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• Ball offers a particularly piercing psychoanalytic reading of the present, even though his subject is the past.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2020
• Gangs ransacked Jewish businesses, including the psychoanalytic publishing house managed by Freud’s son Martin, while brownshirts paid a visit to the Freud household and had to be bribed the equivalent of $840 to leave them alone.
  — Rachel Newcomb, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2022
• They were mired in guilt over their own destructive desires and actions, a classic psychoanalytic conundrum.
  — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 22 July 2021
• The case set up a conflict between two models of treatment—the psychoanalytic and the neurobiological.
  — Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
• The novel gets its title from the cruellest month, in psychoanalytic terms, when many therapists, especially the fancy Manhattan ones, tend to take their vacations.
  — Hannah Gold, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2022
• Perel is small and blond, with an elfin face, intense, peppy charisma, and a Francophone accent that serves to bolster her psychoanalytic and erotic authority.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 31 May 2017
• According to a psychoanalytic framework, trauma is a shock so overwhelming that it cannot be mentally processed.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2021
• Her father, Martin, one of Sigmund Freud’s six children, ran a psychoanalytic publishing house.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
• By the early 1990s, however, the scientific consensus among trans health care providers and researchers was starting to shift away from psychoanalytic theories.
  — Aviva Stahl, Wired, 8 July 2021
• In his book States of Denial, the late psychoanalytic sociologist Stanley Cohen described three forms of denial.
  — Zoe Leviston, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2019
• But Crews insists that psychoanalytic theory is not science, but fiction, and that Freud’s literary prowess is precisely the secret of its success.
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
• Pearce, Newton’s fourth wife, was a psychiatrist doing her psychoanalytic training, while Newton, who had no formal training as a therapist, worked in the bursar’s office.
  — Nellie Hermann, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
• This reported treatise on the inner sanctum of the New York psychoanalytic community in the 1970s, told through interviews with an anonymous practitioner, is a classic.
  — Ana Cecilia Alvarez, The Atlantic, 1 May 2022
• To Keohane the problem was obvious: Levine still viewed gender dysphoria through a psychoanalytic lens rather than as the product of neurobiology.
  — Aviva Stahl, Wired, 8 July 2021
• The rest of his belongings, including his psychoanalytic couch, followed soon after.
  — Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
• But by the 1930s, Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and its emphasis on the unconscious mind dominated modern thought on mental health.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
• The psychoanalytic focus on drives tends to empty the content from political commitment.
  — Sophie Pinkham, The New Republic, 1 May 2020
• And to work regularly with the psychoanalytic movement.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
• As such a pronouncement indicates, Mr. Tóibín is writing here as a psychoanalytic literary biographer, somewhat in the Janet Malcolm mode.
  — Maureen Corrigan, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018
• Beck trained as a psychoanalyst, and his study of psychoanalytic concepts of depression led to his development of cognitive therapy in the 1960s, according to the Beck Institute.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 2 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 12 Aug 2024