1. to treat someone using psychoanalysis, a method of examining unconscious thoughts and feelings
Usage: psychology
2. to examine or interpret someone’s behavior or motivations in detail
Usage: informal

Examples

• The therapist will psychoanalyze the patient to understand their childhood trauma.
• Freud was famous for his ability to psychoanalyze his patients’ dreams.
• She tends to psychoanalyze every comment her friends make.
• The psychiatrist spent months trying to psychoanalyze the complex case.
• Stop trying to psychoanalyze my decision to quit my job.
• The documentary will psychoanalyze the criminal’s motives.
• He felt uncomfortable when his mother would psychoanalyze his relationships.