lay analyst


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lay analyst

n
(Professions) a person without medical qualifications who practises psychoanalysis
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Williamson plays lay analyst and psychologizes my own conjectures about "what Orwell would do" as purported evidence of "Rodden's projection of his personal obsession with Orwell."
Freud's, Loe lost her family to the Nazis, became a lay analyst in the U.S.
He went to Harvard, then studied at the Jung Institute in Switzerland, intent on becoming a lay analyst.
Opposite from many theologians and other lay analysts who state that the Catholic Church has been losing influence locally because its practices have not been modernized, the pope has blamed other elements for this decline.