1. to treat (a person) using psychoanalysis; to examine or analyze the unconscious mind of someone
Usage: British spelling; American English uses 'psychoanalyze'; transitive verb
2. to subject to psychological analysis or interpretation, especially to explain behavior or motives in terms of unconscious drives
Usage: often used informally outside clinical contexts

Examples

• The therapist will psychoanalyse the patient to understand the roots of their anxiety.
• She spent years being psychoanalysed before making progress with her trauma.
• Don't try to psychoanalyse me based on one comment I made.
• The novel's protagonist is psychoanalysed by a skilled psychiatrist.
• Freud pioneered techniques to psychoanalyse the unconscious mind.
• Critics psychoanalysed the director's films to uncover hidden meanings.