teleoanalysis
nounEtymology From teleo- + analysis.
1
An analysis that combines data from different fields.
2
An approach to counseling and psychotherapy proposed by Alfred Adler.
- The understanding of goals and the helping of patients to change their goals are so basic to Adlerian psychotherapy that individual psychology has sometimes been called teleoanalysis.2009, Robert Jean Campbell, Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary, Oxford University Press US, page 974: