psychoˈanalyst
Also with hyphen.
[f. prec., after analysis, analyst.]
One who practises or has training in psychoanalysis.
| 1911 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. July 434 The business of the psychoanalyst is to provide a means by which the emotion attached to a repressed complex may find expression, by being transformed. 1918 Jrnl. Educ. Mar. 153/1 Dr. Pfister devotes a couple of pages to an exposition of the need for the psychoanalyst to be himself ‘free from complexes’. 1921 R. Macaulay Dangerous Ages v. 88 The psycho-analyst doctor would really want to hear details. 1947 A. Huxley Let. 9 Mar. (1969) 567 Marlow is one of those classical cases, so dear to psychoanalysts, with a fixation on his mother. 1977 A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan's {Eacu}crits iii. 105 Of all the undertakings that have been proposed in this century, that of the psychoanalyst is perhaps the loftiest. |