free association
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Tweet n. 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. |
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