Lay Analysis

A lay analysis is a psychoanalysis performed by someone who is not a trained physician; a person who performs such an analysis is a lay analyst.

In The Question of Lay Analysis (1927), Freud had defended the right for those trained in psychoanalysis to practice therapy irrespective of any medical degree: he would strive tirelessly to maintain the independence of the psychoanalytic movement from what he saw as a medical monopoly for the rest of his life.

Read more about Lay Analysis:  Freud and Non-medical Analysts, Opposition To Freud

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