verb
- to release repressed emotions by reliving or expressing the experience that caused them
Usage: psychology; psychoanalysis
Examples
- The patient began to abreact during the therapy session.
- Through guided imagery, she was able to abreact her childhood trauma.
- The therapist helped him abreact his feelings about the accident.
- It took months of treatment before he could abreact properly.
- The goal was to help her abreact in a safe environment.
- Some patients abreact spontaneously without therapeutic intervention.