psychoanalysis

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This idea echoes a long-standing hypothesis in sleep research -- and even in classical psychoanalysis -- that dreams may act as "guardians of sleep."

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

To hear them engaging in psychoanalysis you could be forgiven for thinking that they've spent as much prep-time for Rome in therapy as they have on the training ground.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

In later years he went into psychoanalysis, which cured him, some say, of his sense of humor, for he was no longer funny afterward, though others maintain that psychotherapy may have kept him from suicide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Practitioners in the Jungian tradition pursue many treatment courses—dreamwork, psychoanalysis, interpretation of the patient’s art.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2025

“With all you know about psychoanalysis, you’re going to ruin whatever’s left in that head of hers. All she wants is to retire and sleep.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole