lay analyst

noun

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

lay analyst

noun

1. a person without medical qualifications who practises psychoanalysis

Word History and Origins

Origin of lay analyst¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

From my perspective as a longtime, but lay, analyst of climate science, my sense is she has it right.

From New York Times

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

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Her lawyer, George Miskovsky, referred to Barkouras in court as "a big, strong stud lay analyst."

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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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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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