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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), Freud defended the right of those trained in psychoanalysis to practice therapy irrespective of any medical degree:〔(Roger Perron, "Lay Analysis" )〕 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.〔Ernest Jones, ''The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud'' (Penguin 1964) p. 580〕 ==Freud and non-medical analysts== From the outset, Freud welcomed lay (non-medical) people into as practitioners of psychoanalysis:〔Jones, p. 581〕 Otto Rank and Theodor Reik were two such notable analysts. In Freud's view, psychoanalysis was a full-fledged professional field and could have its own standards independent of medicine. Indeed, in 1913 he wrote "The practice of psychoanalysis has far less need for medical training than for educational preparation in psychology and free human insight. The majority of physicians are not equipped for the work of psychoanalysis".〔Peter Gay, ''Freud: A Life for Our Time'' (London 1989) p. 492〕 Thus Freud saw psychoanalysis as "a profession of lay curers of souls who need not be doctors and should not be priests"; and this new usage of "lay" (to include non-physicians) is the origin of the term, "lay analysis." Such prominent psychoanalytic figures as Anna Freud, Erik H. Erikson, and Ernst Kris were non-medics.〔Janet Malcolm, ''Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession'' (London 1988) p 51〕 When in the 1920s Reik became embroiled in legal challenges over his right to practice psychoanalysis, Freud rose ardently to his defence, writing ''Lay Analysis'' in support of his position; and adding privately that "the struggle for lay analysis must be fought through some time or another. Better now than later. As long as I live, I shall balk at having psychoanalysis swallowed by medicine".〔Freud, quoted in Gay, p. 490-1〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「lay analysis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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