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discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization

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Another believes in the abreaction of all emotion--and so he must have abreacted all his own emotions.
The Relationship Among Substance Abuse Counselors' Spiritual Well-Being, Values, and Self-Actualizing Characteristics and the Impact on Clients' Spiritual Well-Being
Freud labels these memories "parthogenic," and he notes that hysterical patients surfer from incompletely abreacted psychical traumas.
READING THE WOUND: WOLLSTONECRAFT'S WRONGS OF WOMAN, OR MARIA AND TRAUMA THEORY
Goans are haunted by a history they must understand because "just as a trauma in the early life of an individual which continues to have disturbing effects at a later age must in some way be re-enacted and deprived of its maleficent power, so in the life of colonized peoples the foundational trauma must be abreacted, as it used to be said, relived in words so it can show itself for what it was and the people affected can take a certain control of the event and of themselves in the fact of it.
A Kind of Absence
And while Sigmund Freud came to recognize in hysteria a malady of reminiscences, in the course of which psychosomatic disturbances enact memories that are residues and as such displaced representations of traumatic experiences that have not been sufficiently abreacted, his contemporary Pierre Janet spoke of hysteria as a maladie par representation.
Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok have suggested that when some part of an individual's psychic life, rather than being abreacted, remains concealed in his or her psychic topology, it can lead to the invention of phantoms meant to objectify the gap thus produced.
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and the discourse of hysteria
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