Free Association

1. A spontaneous, logically unconstrained and undirected association of ideas, emotions, and feelings.
2. A psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's articulation of free associations is encouraged in order to reveal unconscious thoughts and emotions, such as traumatic experiences that have been repressed.

free association. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved November 08, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/free%20association

page tags: freud psychoanalysis
page_revision: 3, last_edited: 1215249038|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z (%O ago)
editrate (0)tags history files print site tools+ options
Unless stated otherwise Content of this page is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License