Lay analysis
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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. 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.