How to pronounce “empty chair”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (psychotherapy) A chair which is used to personify the client's object of conflict
• A podium or chair left empty to highlight the absence of someone from a debate.
• A position held by someone who is absent or otherwise ineffectual.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, debating) To draw attention to (a person who is absent from a debate) by providing an empty podium or chair which they would have occupied.

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