Tom Otterness contributed, Maira Kalman contributed and it became this cathartic experience for us.

But it makes for good theater, and it's powerfully cathartic as you probably saw last week.

But what happened in the Arab uprisings and what happened in Egypt was particularly cathartic for me.

Well meeting Bandura was really cathartic for me because I realized that this famous scientist had documented and scientifically validated something that we've seen happen for the last 30 years.

47. The authorities have stated that Ayodhya had a socially cathartic effect, created awareness of the danger of the political exploitation of religion and that, therefore, the traumatism experienced by the population should make it possible to prevent further incidents of that nature.

We seem to have forgotten as though, with the explosion of knowledge, the whole human genome mapped out at our feet, we are lulled into inattention, forgetting that the ritual is cathartic to the physician, necessary for the patient forgetting that the ritual has meaning and a singular message to convey to the patient.

The cathartic actions that post war Germany took, not the least of which was the acknowledgement with contrition of those events and the etching on the collective German memory of the wrongs that Nazi Germany had done to Jews and others, leave little doubt that German society as a whole has sincerely learned the lesson of history and has come to terms with it.