nonaffirmation
English
Etymology
non- + affirmation
Noun
nonaffirmation (uncountable)
- Lack of affirmation; failure to affirm something.
- 2013, Doris K. Silverman, David L. Wolitzky, Changing Conceptions of Psychoanalysis: The Legacy of Merton M. Gill (page 168)
- In general, the analyst's nonaffirmation of the patient's immediate sense of himself, together with his evident appreciation of a deeper potential, tends to dislodge the patient from the taken-for-granted texture of the immediate experience and edges him toward abstracting from his wishes and assumptions into a slightly more objectivized view of himself in action.
- 2013, Doris K. Silverman, David L. Wolitzky, Changing Conceptions of Psychoanalysis: The Legacy of Merton M. Gill (page 168)