lay analyst
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of lay analyst
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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Barkouras' successful defense: he was a lay analyst and needed no license.
From Time Magazine Archive
Born in 1552, the self-educated country bumpkin who set up shop in London as an astrologer and unlicensed doctor soon became a kind of lay analyst to a cross-section of his society.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lindner, dubbed a "lay analyst" by the Brahmins of psychiatry because he is a Ph.D. but no M.D., is a practicing analyst in Baltimore.
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