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abreact
verb[ I, T ]
psychology specializeduk /ˌæb.riˈækt/ us /ˌæb.riˈækt/
to experience emotions that you have tried to forget, usually when working with a psychotherapist (= someone who treats mental illness by discussing someone's problems with them):
The aim of many psychotherapy techniques is to get the client to abreact.
They believed that only by abreacting his childhood trauma could he really come to terms with his emotional state.
I realised afterwards that she had been abreacting during the session.
The therapist was quick to intervene and reassure him when he began to abreact.
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