i just had an unexpected catharsis in epidemiology when a clinical trial of beta-carotenesupplementation was used as an example and I remembered how Hannah turns orange when she has too much pumpkin... oh the good ole' days.
This reminds me, as always, of how much I love you. You are brilliant and wonderful and will save the world single handedly, but that's not what catharsis means at all.
c. Psychotherapy. The process of relieving an abnormal excitement by re-establishing the association of the emotion with the memory or idea of the event which was the first cause of it, and of eliminating it by abreaction.
April,
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me, as always, of how much I love you. You are brilliant and wonderful and will save the world single handedly, but that's not what catharsis means at all.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
Oxford English Dictionary;
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c. Psychotherapy. The process of relieving an abnormal excitement by re-establishing the association of the emotion with the memory or idea of the event which was the first cause of it, and of eliminating it by abreaction.