nonaffirmation
nounEtymology From non- + affirmation.
1
Lack of affirmation; failure to affirm something.
- 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: