Usually means: Release of repressed emotions, memories.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. abreaction: Merriam-Webster
  2. abreaction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abreaction: Collins English Dictionary
  4. abreaction: Vocabulary.com
  5. abreaction: Wordnik
  6. abreaction: Wiktionary
  7. abreaction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. abreaction: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. abreaction: Dictionary.com
  10. Abreaction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. abreaction: Rhymezone
  12. abreaction: FreeDictionary.org
  13. abreaction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. abreaction: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. abreaction: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abreaction: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abreaction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. abreaction: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Abreaction: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  7. abreaction: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abreaction)

noun:  (psychoanalysis) The re-living of an experience with a view to purging its emotional dross.

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