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cathartic method [1 record]

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Record 1 2000-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

Method of psychotherapy in which the therapeutic effect sought is "purgative": an adequate discharge of pathogenic affects. The treatment allows the patient to evoke and even to relive the traumatic events to which these affects are bound, and to abreact them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
DEF

Toute méthode thérapeutique qui vise à obtenir une situation de crise émotionnelle telle que cette manifestation critique provoque une solution du problème que la crise met en scène.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología clínica
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