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abreact
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ab·re·act (br-kt)
v.
To release repressed emotions by acting out the situation causing the conflict, as in words, behavior, or the imagination.

abre·action n.

abreact.


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By mediating its strangulating affect through expression, Heart-Centred Hypnotherapy terminates the operative power of the traumatic incident which was not abreacted in the first instance.
Since these are wounds and lacerations that can no longer be abreacted by a successful work of mourning, they give rise to an interminable writing of melancholy that displaces the ontological certainty of our reality while pointing towards a better future that can only be built out of the memory traces of the past.
 
 
 
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