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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

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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

Rankin, in particular, combined the sensibility of a postwar New York analysand with a strong appreciation of the release offered by fairy tales.

From The New Yorker Dec. 23, 2014

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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