PSYCHOANALYST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychoanalyst mean? 

• PSYCHOANALYST (noun)
  The noun PSYCHOANALYST has 1 sense:

1. a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis

  Familiarity information: PSYCHOANALYST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSYCHOANALYST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

analyst; psychoanalyst

Hypernyms ("psychoanalyst" is a kind of...):

head-shrinker; psychiatrist; shrink (a physician who specializes in psychiatry)

Instance hyponyms:

Freud; Sigmund Freud (Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939))

Klein; Melanie Klein (United States psychoanalyst (born in Austria) who was the first to specialize in the psychoanalysis of small children (1882-1960))

Reich; Wilhelm Reich (Austrian born psychoanalyst who lived in the United States; advocated sexual freedom and believed that cosmic energy could be concentrated in a human being (1897-1957))

Derivation:

psychoanalyze (subject to psychoanalytic treatment)