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Catharsis is from the Ancient Greek word κάθαρσις, katharsis, meaning "purification" or "cleansing", commonly used to refer to the purification and purgation of thoughts and emotions by way of expressing them. The desired result is an emotional state of renewal and restoration.
Abreaction (German: Abreagieren) is a psychoanalytical term for reliving an experience to purge it of its emotional excesses—a type of catharsis. Sometimes it is a method of becoming conscious of repressed traumatic events.
In medicine, a cathartic is a substance that accelerates defecation. This is similar to a laxative, which is a substance that eases defecation, usually by softening feces. [1] It is possible for a substance to be both a laxative and a cathartic. However, agents such as psyllium seed husks increase the bulk of the feces. [2] [3]
He told Variety that it was a "cathartic" experience. "Anytime you're trying to tell the truth you need to go to places and use things that have happened to you, or you've read about or ...
Recounting the harrowing experience felt cathartic. “It really does help to share,” she says. “Be compassionate and empathetic, and ask about the person's story, because everybody has a ...
For the reader to identify with the hero archetype, for example, is a cathartic experience as they are freed from the worries and emotions of their everyday life to momentarily become a powerful hero operating inside a contained fantasy. [11]
Pamela Anderson says making "The Last Showgirl" was "a really cathartic experience" and "a complete departure" for her. Who are the directors you’d most love to work with next?
Josef Breuer (/ ˈ b r ɔɪ ər / BROY-ur; Austrian German:; 15 January 1842 – 20 June 1925) was an Austrian physician who made discoveries in neurophysiology, and whose work during the 1880s with his patient Bertha Pappenheim, known as Anna O., led to the development of the "cathartic method" (also referred to as the "talking cure") for psychiatric disorders.