How to Use psychoanalytic in a Sentence

psychoanalytic

adjective
  • This is grist for the psychoanalytic mill.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • More than any of that, this movie is intensely psychoanalytic.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2022
  • At the time, psychoanalytic ideas still guided the treatment of the mentally ill.
    — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2014
  • As forward as the song is, there is sort of a witty, cryptic, psychoanalytic undertone to it also.
    — Ella Jayes, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Sadly, this does not add up to a relationship from which searing psychoanalytic insight is gained.
    — Jd Heyman, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • For Freud himself, textiles were a potent source of psychoanalytic metaphor—the strands to gather, the thread to follow out of the labyrinth.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Jaspers’ approach owed a great deal to psychoanalytic theory and the work of Sigmund Freud.
    — Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
  • In the psychoanalytic tradition, shame is tied to exposure—the feeling of being seen for who one really is.
    — Michael S. Roth, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Jung’s sessions with Pauli became the stuff of psychoanalytic legend.
    — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
  • They were mired in guilt over their own destructive desires and actions, a classic psychoanalytic conundrum.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 22 July 2021
  • Ball offers a particularly piercing psychoanalytic reading of the present, even though his subject is the past.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2020
  • From Freud’s time, his operas have been seen as stagings of the dramas that dominate psychoanalytic theory.
    — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Marshall, however, is less concerned with psychoanalytic tropes than social ones.
    — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 12 Dec. 2022
  • According to a psychoanalytic framework, trauma is a shock so overwhelming that it cannot be mentally processed.
    — James Robins, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2021
  • In the middle of the room sits Freud’s desk, still cluttered with his favorite objects, and on the far wall is the psychoanalytic couch, draped in an Oriental rug.
    — Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
  • The rest of his belongings, including his psychoanalytic couch, followed soon after.
    — Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
  • Like a psychoanalytic symptom, prices condense and communicate fragments of knowledge that are obscure to the conscious mind.
    — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
  • While Brazil is a country with a robust psychoanalytic culture — for those who can afford it — as in so many places there remains a stigma surrounding mental illness.
    — Sadie Stein, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • To the annoyance no doubt of many a psychoanalytic patient, the very interaction between the two becomes the subject-matter of the therapy.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2011
  • The psychoanalytic focus on drives tends to empty the content from political commitment.
    — Sophie Pinkham, The New Republic, 1 May 2020
  • The case set up a conflict between two models of treatment—the psychoanalytic and the neurobiological.
    — Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
  • This is very different from the psychoanalytic approach, which values resilience less than patience, self-understanding and gentleness.
    — Mark Edmundson, WSJ, 18 June 2021
  • Perel is small and blond, with an elfin face, intense, peppy charisma, and a Francophone accent that serves to bolster her psychoanalytic and erotic authority.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 31 May 2017
  • Her father, Martin, one of Sigmund Freud’s six children, ran a psychoanalytic publishing house.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
  • The novel gets its title from the cruellest month, in psychoanalytic terms, when many therapists, especially the fancy Manhattan ones, tend to take their vacations.
    — Hannah Gold, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Perhaps the first big style shift of the psychoanalytic era came in the years after the First World War, with the rise of androgynous looks typified by the boyish profile of the flapper.
    — Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • But Crews insists that psychoanalytic theory is not science, but fiction, and that Freud’s literary prowess is precisely the secret of its success.
    — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Upsides and downsides of using AI personas to simulate the psychoanalytic acumen of Sigmund Freud, see my examples at the link here.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Upsides and downsides of using AI personas to simulate the psychoanalytic acumen of Sigmund Freud, see my examples at the link here.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Pearce, Newton’s fourth wife, was a psychiatrist doing her psychoanalytic training, while Newton, who had no formal training as a therapist, worked in the bursar’s office.
    — Nellie Hermann, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023

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