extrospective

comparative more extrospective · superlative most extrospective

1. Involving extrospection.

   When it comes to understanding the subjective self, Kohut (1959) sees the introspective and extrospective methods as unequal in value.

   2013, Ronald R. Lee, J. Colby Martin, Psychotherapy After Kohut: A Textbook of Self Psychology, page 107

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   In short, the physician shifts from proceeding mostly by the extrospective route toward a combined extrospective and introspective approach toward the patient as a whole human being, thus building toward a person to person, doctor-patient relationship.

   1982, Adrian C. Moulyn, The Meaning of Suffering, page 57