psychoanalytical a of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud Freud's psychoanalytical theories Usage(s) This question has been around ever since the publication of Freud's first overtly psychoanalytical papers in the late 1890s. In fact, the biographer is no less skeptical about many psychoanalytical formulations than Freud was himself. Without any psychoanalytical jargonmongering, Naughton shows how every wedding bed contains six people. Synonym(s) psychoanalytic