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SELF-ANALYSIS [1 record]

Record 1 2010-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

Self-probing to uncover one's psychodynamic mechanisms.

CONT

Self-analysis belongs to the German tradition of revealing depths "thanks to a method based on conceptual reversals". Or, in a more plastic phrase: introspection gives one the opportunity to notice the shade surrounding the luminous area of conscience whereas self-analysis attempts at discovering the nocturnal side of apparently diurnal semblance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
DEF

Investigation de soi par soi, conduite de façon plus ou moins systématique, et qui recourt à certains procédés de la méthode psychanalytique - associations libres, analyse de rêves, interprétation de conduites, etc.

Spanish

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