distributive analysis and synthesis
an approach to psychotherapy that developed within psychobiology. In the first stage, a systematic analysis is made from information gained from the client about past and present experience and distributed into such categories as symptoms and complaints, assets and liabilities, and pathological or immature reactions. In the second stage, this study is used as a prelude to a constructive synthesis built on the client’s own strengths, goals, and abilities. [developed by Adolf Meyer]