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A lay analysis is a psychoanalysis performed by someone who is not a physician; that person was designated a lay analyst.
In The Question of Lay Analysis (1927), Sigmund Freud defended the right of those trained in psychoanalysis to practice therapy irrespective of any medical degree.[1] 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.[2]
- ^ "Roger Perron, "Lay Analysis"". Archived from the original on 2009-11-03. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
- ^ Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (Penguin 1964) p. 580