psychotherapeutics

[ sahy-koh-ther-uh-pyoo-tiks ]

noun(used with a singular verb)

Origin of psychotherapeutics

1
First recorded in 1870–75; psycho- + therapeutics

Other words from psychotherapeutics

  • psy·cho·ther·a·peu·tic, adjective
  • psy·cho·ther·a·peu·ti·cal·ly, adverb
  • psy·cho·ther·a·peu·tist, noun

Words Nearby psychotherapeutics

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How to use psychotherapeutics in a sentence

  • One word for my personal right to deal with these questions, as too much illegitimate psychotherapeutics is heard to-day.

    Psychotherapy | Hugo Mnsterberg
  • It is this law of attention that must be taken advantage of for psychotherapeutics.

    Psychotherapy | James J. Walsh
  • The actual place of dreams in psychology, then, becomes an important consideration in psychotherapeutics.

    Psychotherapy | James J. Walsh
  • Especially where the headache seems to result from hyperæmia, the trouble seems to be accessible to psychotherapeutics.

    Psychotherapy | Hugo Mnsterberg
  • The whole system of such religious psychotherapeutics is therefore in its inner structure contradictory.

    Psychotherapy | Hugo Mnsterberg