cathartic experience

collocation in English

meaningsofcatharticandexperience

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cathartic
adjective
uk
/kəˈθɑː.tɪk/us
/kəˈθɑːr.tɪk/
involving the release of strong emotions through a particular activity ...
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experience
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us
/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition ofcatharticandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I suspect that the outpouring of criticism was acatharticexperiencefor heads.
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Often, that is as far as it goes—it is acatharticexperience.
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There is a necessary process in bereavement, which brings a sort ofcatharticexperience, and part of it is the final leave-taking.
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Producing it was a good,catharticexperience.
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Really, the music helped me out of it through thiscatharticexperienceof writing the songs.
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It was the mostcatharticexperienceof my life.
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It's a verycatharticexperiencebeing a misery-guts for a living.
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Reitman was amazed by how many people of different age, race, and gender were willing to speak frankly about what happened and what acatharticexperienceit had been.
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Temperamento described releasing the video as acatharticexperience, and that it also served to show his fans that he himself is not free from sin.
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Grof also suggests that many cathartic experiences within psychedelic states, while not necessarily crises, may be the effects of consciousness entering a perinatal space.
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