Usage Note
Psychanalyse is the French rendering of Freud's discipline, and France has one of the highest densities of practicing psychoanalysts per capita in the world. The practitioner is un/une psychanalyste. Note that French often shortens it colloquially to la psy in casual conversation.
Examples
"Elle suit une psychanalyse depuis deux ans."
Natural Translation
She has been in psychoanalysis for two years.
Literal Translation
She follows a psychoanalysis since two years.

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