[kon-shuh
s-nis-rey-zing] 
| 1. | Psychology. a group-therapy technique in which the aim is to enhance the participants' awareness of their particular needs and goals as individuals or as a group. |
| 2. | any method for increasing interpersonal awareness or sensitivity by teaching people to experience a situation or point of view radically different from their own: The women's group has tried to change macho attitudes through consciousness-raising. |
| 3. | an act or instance of increasing the awareness of one's own or another's needs, behavior, attitudes, or problems. |
| con·scious·ness-rais·ing (kŏn'shəs-nĭs-rā'zĭng) n. The process of achieving greater awareness, as of one's own needs or of a political or social issue. con'scious·ness-rais'er n., con'scious·ness-rais'ing adj. |
consciousness-raising n.
A process, as by group therapy, of achieving greater awareness of one's needs in order to fulfill one's potential as a person.