Abreact Definition

ăbrē-ăkt

abreacts

verb

To release (repressed emotions) by acting out, as in words, behavior, or the imagination, the situation causing the conflict.

American Heritage

In psychoanalytic theory, to release repressed emotions by intentionally recounting, acting out, or remembering the trauma causing the conflict.

American Heritage Medicine

(psychoanalysis) To eliminate previously repressed emotions by reliving past experiences. [First attested in the early 20^th century.]

Wiktionary

Origin of Abreact

Partial translation of German abreagieren, from ab (“away from, off, down from") + reagieren (“to react").

From Wiktionary
Translation of German abreagieren ab- away reagieren to react

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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