psychoanalytic theory
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psychoanalytic
adjective
uk/ˌsaɪ.kəʊˈˌæn.əlˈɪt.ɪk/us/ˌsaɪ.koʊˌæn.əlˈɪt̬.ɪk/
relating ...
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theory
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈθɪə.ri/us/ˈθɪr.i/
a formal statement of the rules on which a subject of study is based or of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event or, more generally, an opinion ...
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(Definition ofpsychoanalyticandtheoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Traditionalpsychoanalytictheoryand practice may indeed be inappropriate.
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By this is meant the application ofpsychoanalytictheoryand concepts to history and biography.
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There is a school ofpsychoanalytictheorythat impinges on this narrative.
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It radically challenges the centrality of the castration scene in classical and contemporarypsychoanalytictheory.
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We might rather consider it produced - as a transmissible social fact - bypsychoanalytictheoryand practice.
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Such cases could have been used to test and extend thepsychoanalytictheoryof depression.
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Even so,psychoanalytictheorywas profoundly destabilising for at least three reasons.
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Thus, at any timepsychoanalytictheoryis like a growing family of ideas, with resemblances, relationships, and feuds.
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Despite these destabilising qualities,psychoanalytictheorywas widely influential and, by the mid-twentieth century, culturally entrenched.
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According topsychoanalytictheory, beyond representing consensual reality, internal working models contain the unique constructions of each child.
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This reflected the prevailingpsychoanalytictheoryabout the etiology of difficulties for adults lying in childhood experiences.
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But it was by addressing the word "really" that she was led to her doubts aboutpsychoanalytictheory.
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The term is derived frompsychoanalytictheory; the only psychological theory, other than phenomenological perception theory, to be extensively used in the review.
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Indeed,psychoanalytictheorysuggests that self-deception can work only if there is more than a little truth in the deception.
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Further, distinctive schools within the psychodynamic tradition have taken up particular parts ofpsychoanalytictheorywhich would influence broader social attitudes in different ways.
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At one end of the continuum are grand, inclusive "theories" such aspsychoanalytictheory, family systems theory, and learning theory, which implicitly or explicitly guide many therapeutic efforts.
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Psychoanalytictheoryis alive, and its potential for enriching our understanding of developmental psychopathology has not been fully exploited in the century that has just closed.
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The earliest explanations were based onpsychoanalytictheory.
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His work attempts to integrate empirical research withpsychoanalytictheory.
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Inpsychoanalytictheorythis functions as a defense mechanism.
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These excursions into what might now be thought of as popular culture, were originally attempts to extend the explanatory value ofpsychoanalytictheory, in order to interpret contemporary life.
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Inpsychoanalytictheory, mental life is divided into three levels of awareness.
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It features major analyses ofpsychoanalytictheory, poetry, philosophy and contemporary art.
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His examination of the genetic and then the developmental aspects gave thepsychoanalytictheoryits characteristics.
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