analysand
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of analysand
First recorded in 1930–35; analys(e) + -and as in multiplicand
Example Sentences
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The most philosophical way to abandon them was therapeutically: one could relive the philosophical past the same way an analysand relives her emotional past.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 10, 2017
Yet listening to her describe her work, she sounds as much an analysand as a performer.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2016
As an analysand and an armchair analyst, I can’t help suspecting that whether they consciously know it or not, people like Jeff Bezos and the New Republic’s Chris Hughes want some of that.
From Slate • Jan. 8, 2015
The larger, "background" image shows a psychoanalyst at his desk, his analysand stretched on a couch, a medicine cabinet in the corner and a photograph of Freud on the wall.
From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2011
Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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