psychoanalyst

[ sahy-koh-an-l-ist ]

noun

1. a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.

Word History and Origins

Origin of psychoanalyst¹

First recorded in 1910–15; psycho- + analyst

Example Sentences

Stephen Ducat is an author, political psychologist, psychoanalyst and former psychology professor in the School of Humanities at New College of California.

From Salon

Stephen Ducat is a political psychologist, psychoanalyst and former psychology professor in the School of Humanities at New College of California.

From Salon

As a psychoanalyst, I’ve been influenced by the teaching of Elvin Semrad who said “Sorrow is the vitamin of growth.”

From Salon

She sought help from a New York City psychoanalyst, who helped her recall the traumatic events of her girlhood, in part by reading the Swiss diaries and letters from home she had not dared open in more than 40 years.

From Los Angeles Times

Ishana is 24, and “The Watchers” shows that she truly is Jung at heart: At times the movie feels as if an eager undergraduate patched it together from the greatest hits of the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, most notably the forest as both physical and psychological place, the mirror as revelator and the presence of the double.

From New York Times

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