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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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Abreacting feelings Children can only experience their feelings fully when there is a caregiver available to accept and support the expression of those feelings (Miller, 1981).
Normals, who are more tuned to what is happening around them, for expediency will show greater suppression of affect during the day abreacting them during sleep in dreams.
That wounded ego state can be dramatically healed by retrieving it for re-experience in age regression, abreacting the experience, and allowing a means of reintegration and transformation of the trauma experience into a physically corrected experience of empowerment (van der Kolk & Greenberg, 1987).
 
 
 
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