collective experience

in group psychotherapy, the common body of emotional experience that develops out of the individual members’ identification with each other’s problems and mutual support and empathy. [first described by Russian-born U.S. psychotherapist Samuel Richard Slavson (1890–1981)]

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May 10th 2024

trochlear nerve

the fourth cranial nerve, which contains motor fibers supplying the superior oblique muscle of the eyeball.