psychoanalyze
psychoanalyse BrE

Adolescence was hard enough without having your mother psychoanalyze you.

"You learn to psychoanalyze people to get under the surface of what they're saying," he said.

I mean now I'm sort of psychoanalyzing the authority about the school closing.

My mother is quite wealthy and the children of the rich, you know, must all be psychoanalyzed.

I'm not trying to psychoanalyze him, but he's worried about something, maybe his job in the rotation.

"You know, I really don't want to psychoanalyze myself right now."

My greatest fear is to be psychoanalyzed - or cured.

The movie makes little attempt to psychoanalyze Arenas or to explain him.

It was as if she was being psychoanalyzed in front of an audience.

"I have psychoanalyzed myself and concluded that it's show business," he said thoughtfully.

"And you were supposed to psychoanalyze me," I said.

"It's not easy trying to psychoanalyze the terrorist mind."

"People always try to psychoanalyze me, but I'm as happy as can be," he said.

"I'm not really in the mood to be psychoanalyzed, Doc."

We've got child psychologists psychoanalyzing every kid in town, but they can't explain it.

"Well, if you're gonna psychoanalyze a human, then you should think like one.

There's a limit, isn't there, even if someone's been psychoanalyzed?

I said, "It's not our business to psychoanalyze him, doll.

She added, "Unfortunately, today we have to psychoanalyze everything."

"You don't have to spend a lot of time trying to psychoanalyze what you're dealing with," he said in a recent interview.

As a training analyst for the society, he psychoanalyzed candidates in its training program.

"You were psychoanalyzing, Doctor," Kirk said as he turned away.

"I want to be able to psychoanalyze my kids after a win, because I'm tired of doing it after a loss."

I haven't spent a lot of time psychoanalyzing myself."

I'm tired of trying to psychoanalyze some guys.

- We don't attempt to psychoanalyse our guests, sir, she told him briskly.

Not to psychoanalyse her in any way, but we all became the Big Sisters to Debbi.

This was a much darker story than its predecessors, centering around a man who built a giant machine that could help him psychoanalyse his soul.

He advises the pair of knights to psychoanalyse the Questing Beast.

In the next breath she recognises that her readers will inevitably try to psychoanalyse her through her books.

Later analysts would conclude that 'clearly one cannot psychoanalyse a writer from his text; one can only appropriate him'.

By the way, I notice an increasing tendency for her critics to psychoanalyse Mrs Thatcher.

Freud's work, and other, more recent, attempts to psychoanalyse Leonardo, are discussed at length in Bradley Collins's book Leonardo, Psychoanalysis and Art History.

The discipline has the advantage of being able to deal with motive in history and is useful in developing narratives, but is forced to psychoanalyse its subjects after the fact, which was not considered when the theory was developed and expanded.