free-floating attention

in psychoanalysis and in other forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy, the analyst’s or therapist’s state of evenly suspended attention during the therapeutic session. This attention does not focus on any one thing the client says, but it allows the analyst or therapist to listen to all the material being presented and tune into the client’s affects and unconscious ideas. Also called evenly hovering attention.

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Psychology term of the day

May 9th 2024

exon

n. a sequence of DNA within a gene that encodes a part or all of the gene’s product or function. Exons are separated by noncoding sequences (see intron).