Her statement that being able to verbalize her problem helped her to unburden herself is in accordance with the treatment later denoted in psychoanalysis as the catharsis theory.
He said his first visit to a psychiatrist helped because the doctor encouraged him to unburden himself by telling him everything that was bothering him.
The memory controller flaw could have been mitigated by a mature code-development environment, to unburden the programmer from having to micromanage small chunks of code.
