psychoanalysis

Compared meaning: psychoanalysis, Freud's method of treating mental illness (noun).

比较义项：精神分析（治疗精神疾病的方法，源自弗洛伊德理论）（名词）。

• analysis

  Informal shorthand for psychoanalysis, mainly used in the fixed phrase 'in analysis' (undergoing treatment); rarely used to name the theory or field itself.

  analysis 是 psychoanalysis 的口语化简称，主要用于固定说法“in analysis”（正在接受这种治疗）；很少用来指称这一理论或学科本身。

  She has been in analysis with a Freudian therapist for over a decade.

  她跟着一位弗洛伊德派治疗师做精神分析已经超过十年了。

• psychoanalysis 本词

  The formal, technical term for Freud's theory and method of treating mental illness; used when naming the field, theory or practice itself, not just casual mentions of therapy.

  psychoanalysis 是弗洛伊德治疗精神疾病的理论与方法的正式、专业名称，用于指称这一学科、理论或疗法本身，而不只是随口提及看心理医生。

  Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth century.

  西格蒙德·弗洛伊德在十九世纪末创立了精神分析。

Analysis and psychoanalysis both can mean this therapy, but differ: analysis is informal shorthand, mainly used in the fixed phrase 'in analysis', meaning undergoing this treatment. Psychoanalysis is the formal, technical name for Freud's theory and method itself. Not compared: analysis meaning 'examining data'.

这两个词在“精神分析疗法”这个意义上很接近，但正式程度不同：analysis 是口语化的简称，常用于“in analysis”这类固定说法，表示正在接受这种治疗；psychoanalysis 才是正式、专业的名称，指弗洛伊德创立的理论体系和治疗方法本身。这里不比较 analysis 常见的“分析、剖析（数据、情况等）”的意思。