analysand

n.
A person who is being psychoanalyzed.

[From ANALYZE, on the model of MULTIPLICAND.]

During the earliest days of psychoanalytic practice, Freud and his students, excited by their discoveries, put great emphasis on the active role of the psychoanalyst. Even though he showed himself to be less of an inquisitor than in the Studies on Hysteria, it was the analyst who intervened, interpreted, "analyzed," and the patient was, at least in theory, the person on whom some form of therapeutic activity was practiced. The patient was the "analysand" of a psychoanalyst, who possessed the necessary theoretical knowledge from having first "undergone" the initiatory experience of psychoanalysis himself.

British authors were the first to use the gerundive form "analysand" to refer to the patient in analysis. The term is found as early as 1925 in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis and was regularly used by English authors before the Second World War. As psychoanalysis developed and spread, and as increasing emphasis was placed on the transference and counter-transference in the dynamics of therapy, the patient turned out to be at least as, and sometimes more, active than the analyst. In 1972 Joyce McDougall created the term "anti-analysand."

Bibliography

McDougall, Joyce. (1972). L'anti-analysant en analyse. Revue française de psychanalyse, 36, 167-206.

—ALAINDE MIJOLLA

(ə-năl'ĭ-sănd')
n.

An individual who is being psychoanalyzed.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a person undergoing psychoanalysis

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - analysand

Nederlands (Dutch)
iemand in psychoanalyse

Français (French)
n. - (Psych) sujet en analyse

Deutsch (German)
n. - (Psychoan.) Analysand, (Person in psychoanalytischer Behandlung)

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ψυχαναλυόμενος

Italiano (Italian)
candidato all'analisi

Português (Portuguese)
n. - analisando (m)

Русский (Russian)
подвергающий психоанализу

Español (Spanish)
n. - persona que se somete al psicoanálisis

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - person som går i psykoanalys

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
接受精神分析的人

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 接受精神分析的人

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 정신 분석을 받는 사람

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 精神分析中の人

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) محلل نفسي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אדם העובר ניתוח-נפש (פסיכואנליזה)‬

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