one-person psychology

in relational psychoanalysis, a term used to characterize classical psychoanalysis as a perspective that focuses on the patient’s intrapsychic life and assumes that the analyst’s or therapist’s role is largely as an objective observer of manifestations of the patient’s dynamics. Compare two-person psychology.

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December 7th 2024

spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

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