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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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Yet listening to her describe her work, she sounds as much an analysand as a performer.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2016

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

Like a dedicated analysand, Germany has brought its past to the surface, endlessly discussed it, and accepted it, and this work of many years has freed the patient to lead a successful new life.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014

It is normally a requirement that the analyst meet the analysand, but as Hitler was busy with other matters this could not be arranged.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2012

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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