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.
Origin
1970-75, Americanism
consciousness-raising in Medicine
consciousness-raisingn. A process, as by group therapy, of achieving greater awareness of one's needs in order to fulfill one's potential as a person.