regressionist

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English

Etymology

From regression +‎ -ist.

Noun

regressionist (plural regressionists)

  1. One who promotes or follows regressionism.
    This politician is a regressionist who disregards what people care about now.
  2. One who travels back in time.
    • 2010, Denise Linn, Past Lives, Present Miracles:
      She, too, was a past-life regressionist. I asked, “Do you remember if you had a lifetime in connection with Nazi Germany?” She replied, “Oh, I thought you knew. I was a prison warden at Auschwitz.
  3. (psychotherapy) One who carries out regressions, inducing a patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.