cathartic

• “Ca 'is the abbreviation for the word cathartic, meaning healing.”

  Tucson Citizen

• “It is on this fact that they founded their method of treatment, devised by Breuer and by him termed the cathartic method, though Freud prefers to call it the "analytic" method.”

  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism

• “Over the weekend, the student met with Norwegian Prime Minister Jen Stoltenberg and other survivors - an experience she described as cathartic.”

  Reuters: Press Release

• “Whether it’s Coulter’s books, the millions of conservatives who enjoy them (hate, when cathartic, is actually quite enjoyable), or death threats against musicians who speak liberal opinions.”

  Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows

• “Activated charcoal with a cathartic should be administered.”

  Clonidine Overdose in Children

• “If you will read the literature you will find that it is referred to as a cathartic, resembling in this respect the castor bean.”

  Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920

• “This method of dispelling them is technically known as the cathartic method, and consists simply in a frank and full confession.”

  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal

• “Both methods, the discharging, or the so-called cathartic one, and the side-tracking method evidently demand the discovery of the starting point in the service of the therapy and here again several methods are at the disposal of the psychologist.”

  Psychotherapy

• “That earlier method of bringing the trauma to consciousness and making it discharge, the so-called cathartic method, removes only the particular group of disturbances but the patient remains a hysteric, and if ever new accidents should happen which would touch again those inmost repressed ideas, new hysterical symptoms would develop.”

  Psychotherapy

• “Gamboge is a powerful drastic, hydragogue cathartic, which is apt to produce nausea and vomiting.”

  The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand

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