1. the removal or reduction of psychological repression; the process of bringing repressed thoughts, feelings, or memories into conscious awareness
Usage: psychology, psychoanalysis
2. the removal of restrictions or controls on gene expression, allowing a gene to be transcribed and expressed
Usage: molecular biology, genetics

Examples

• The therapist helped the patient achieve derepression of childhood trauma through guided imagery.
• Derepression of the lac operon occurs when lactose is present in the bacterial cell.
• The artist's creative breakthrough came after years of emotional derepression in therapy.
• In molecular biology, derepression allows previously silenced genes to become active.
• The derepression of unconscious conflicts was a key goal of early psychoanalytic treatment.