After any significant personal life-event, a catharsis is usually needed.
By parity of reasoning a blood ritual may have been adopted by peoples who practise the expulsion of evils, conceiving them either animistically or as powers; catharsis, in the sense of removal of uncleanness, is not necessarily primitive.
Catharsis can be a confusing emotional experience for some people.
Crying is a great catharsis for releasing pain and anger.
Dante ' s own anger at the darkness of his times here achieves catharsis through Mark's condemnation.
Emotional catharsis is an important factor in a person's well-being.
Engaging in nature allows me to experience catharsis.
Expressing and releasing your deepest emotions, whether positive or negative, is a healing process called catharsis.
First, the creative experience, when completed, may generate a catharsis.
For many, yoga is a catharsis which allows them to reflect upon their deepest feelings.
I always feel relieved and relaxed after experiencing a catharsis.
It lies in our willingness and capacity to create global catharsis in a creative way, to precipitate change by choice.
It seems to me that in the first year of living together with her he underwent a major catharsis.
Laughter can be a catharsis for expressing joy and amusement.
Music is a means of catharsis for her.
Once we begin examining ourselves, we will experience catharsis many, many times.
So he wrote ' Thus Spoke Zarathustra ' during a period of intense catharsis, and was afterward engulfed in bitterness.
Some believe that the notion of emotional catharsis is ridiculous.
The city may be in mourning, but the numerous church services and candlelight vigils help provide some emotional catharsis.
The diagnosis may produce a psychological catharsis which may benefit the afflicted in relation to the real fear of witchcraft.
The person now repudiates what he felt in the catharsis.
The role of catharsis in one's mental health should not be undermined.
There are some who rapidly vent their frustrations as a way to find order through catharsis – a chaotic way of feeling better.
They argue for a "catharsis theory" put forth by James Ivory in 2001, which suggests that the release of emotions during violent video games actually decreased the child's tendency towards violent behavior.
This begins with a social catharsis and ends in social resentment, and sometimes in social bitterness too.
This process of catharsis can bring improvements in both physical and mental health.
This raises the problem of how far the catharsis dealt with above is in its original form an elimination of impurity, and how far something more definite - a spirit or other principle of evil - is held to be expelled by scapegoat and allied ceremonies.