abreact
/ˌæbriˈækt/
verb
- To release or relieve emotional tension by reliving a past traumatic experience, often through talking or therapy.
- Some patients abreact during hypnosis by vividly recalling painful memories.
- The therapist helped her abreact the childhood trauma she had buried for years.
- He needed to abreact his anger from the accident before he could move on.
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