While they are discussing Bernie's recently deceased father,Bernie's psychodynamically oriented therapist encourages Bernie to compose a letter to his father,telling him everything he had wanted to tell him,but had failed to tell him,while he was alive.Bernie comes back the next week and tells his therapist that although writing the letter was an exhausting and very emotional exercise,he now feels much calmer than he did before.What term would Freud use to describe Bernie's experience?

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Bernie's experience of feeling calmer after completing the emotional exercise of writing a letter to his deceased father is an example of catharsis, which involves the release of pent-up emotions and cathartic relief through some form of expression or action.

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