repetition compulsion

(repetition reaction)

Compulsion to repeat past events.

This term appears in...

• psychoanalysis
• psychodynamic psychotherapy

includes:

- Choose - traumatophilic diathesis

See also:

- Choose - id resistance psychoanalysis psychodynamic psychotherapy

Movies

- Choose - Bee Season Coming Home (2015) Felicia's Journey Marnie Peeping Tom Psycho III The Dark Past The Machinist The Night Porter (1974) The Onion Field Things Behind the Sun