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analysand

American  
[uh-nal-uh-sand, -zand] / əˈnæl əˌsænd, -ˌzænd /

noun

Psychiatry.
  1. a person undergoing psychoanalysis.


analysand British  
/ əˈnælɪˌsænd /

noun

  1. any person who is undergoing psychoanalysis

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of analysand

First recorded in 1930–35; analys(e) + -and as in multiplicand

Example Sentences

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He’s a perfect contrast, in other words, to Nick Kyrgios, who, at only twenty-one, will lead the Australian team, and who is, of course, the game’s troubled analysand.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 6, 2017

The spaceman becomes the most far-flung analysand in the solar system.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2017

As an analysand and an armchair analyst, I can’t help suspecting that whether they consciously know it or not, people like Jeff Bezos and the New Republic’s Chris Hughes want some of that.

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2015

The larger, "background" image shows a psychoanalyst at his desk, his analysand stretched on a couch, a medicine cabinet in the corner and a photograph of Freud on the wall.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2011

Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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