lay analyst

American  

noun

1. a psychoanalyst who does not have a medical degree.

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lay analyst British  

noun

1. a person without medical qualifications who practises psychoanalysis

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Etymology

Origin of lay analyst

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

Born in 1552, the self-educated country bumpkin who set up shop in London as an astrologer and unlicensed doctor soon became a kind of lay analyst to a cross-section of his society.

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Barkouras' successful defense: he was a lay analyst and needed no license.

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Lindner, dubbed a "lay analyst" by the Brahmins of psychiatry because he is a Ph.D. but no M.D., is a practicing analyst in Baltimore.

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