depth psychology
Noun
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Noun
depth psychology (uncountable)
- An approach to psychology which attempts to describe and explain the structure, content, and relationship of conscious and unconscious mental activity, and which is intended to serve as a basis for psychoanalytic therapies.
- 1957 May 13, "[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867654,00.html Medicine: Psychology & the Ads]," Time (retrieved 19 Sep 2015):
- Depth psychology now probably has more influence on the U.S. at large through business and advertising than through clinics or mental-health programs.
- 2002 April 28, Anthony Daniels, "You won't feel a thing ↗" (review of Hidden Depths by Robin Waterfield), Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 19 Sep 2015):
- Mr Waterfield's long book traces the history of hypnosis from its discovery by Franz Anton Mesmer . . . who has been both derided as a self-seeking charlatan and praised as the forerunner of depth psychology.
- 2006 Aug. 6, Sam Tanenhaus, "The Education of Richard Hofstadter ↗," New York Times (retrieved 19 Sep 2015):
- [A] nucleus of thinkers at Columbia . . . formed a loose federation of like minds. . . . Most were influenced by European social science, in particular by psychoanalysis and depth psychology, which offered more fruitful diagnostic methods than the tired formulas of Marxism and the class struggle.
- 1957 May 13, "[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867654,00.html Medicine: Psychology & the Ads]," Time (retrieved 19 Sep 2015):
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