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a psychological theory and therapeutic method developed by Sigmund Freud, based on the ideas that mental life functions on both conscious and unconscious levels and that childhood events have a powerful psychological influence throughout life
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treatment by psychoanalysis, interpreting material presented by a patient in order to bring the processes of the unconscious into conscious awareness
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medical treatment in which someone talks to a psychoanalyst about their feelings in order to understand their own behaviour better, or to solve their mental problems