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The treatment of people diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders using dialogue and a variety of psychological techniques.See Also: psychotherapist
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Psychotherapy — is an interpersonal, relational intervention used by trained psychotherapists to aid s in problems of living. This usually includes increasing individual sense of well being and reducing subjective discomforting experience. Psychotherapists… … Wikipedia
Psychotherapy — • That branch of therapeutics which uses the mind to influence the body Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Psychotherapy Psychotherapy … Catholic encyclopedia
Psychotherapy — Psy cho*ther a*py, n. [Psycho + therapy.] (Med.) Psychotherapeutics. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
psychotherapy — 1892 in modern sense, from PSYCHO (Cf. psycho ) + THERAPY (Cf. therapy) … Etymology dictionary
psychotherapy — ► NOUN ▪ the treatment of mental disorder by psychological rather than medical means. DERIVATIVES psychotherapeutic adjective psychotherapist noun … English terms dictionary
psychotherapy — [sī΄kō ther′ə pē] n. [ PSYCHO + THERAPY] treatment of mental disorder by any of various means involving communication between a trained person and the patient and including counseling, psychoanalysis, etc. psychotherapist n … English World dictionary
Psychotherapy — The last half of the eighteenth century saw a big upsurge of interest in using the doctor–patient relationship therapeutically, which is the essence of medical psychotherapy. In France after 1750, there had been much writing on la médecine de… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
psychotherapy — psychotherapist, n. /suy koh ther euh pee/, n., pl. psychotherapies. the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy. [1890 95; PSYCHO + THERAPY] * *… … Universalium
psychotherapy — [[t]sa͟ɪkoʊθe̱rəpi[/t]] N UNCOUNT Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods in treating people who are mentally ill, rather than using physical methods such as drugs or surgery. For milder depressions, certain forms of psychotherapy do… … English dictionary
psychotherapy — Treatment of emotional, behavioral, personality, and psychiatric disorders based primarily upon verbal or nonverbal communication and interventions with the patient, in contrast to treatments utilizing chemical and physical measures. See entrie … Medical dictionary
psychotherapy — Synonyms and related words: Arica movement, Erhard Seminars Training, New Consciousness, Pentothal interview, SAT, T group, assertiveness training, behavior modification, behavior therapy, bioenergetics, biofeedback, confrontation therapy,… … Moby Thesaurus
