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psychotherapy

[ sahy-koh-ther-uh-pee ]

noun

, plural psy·cho·ther·a·pies.
  1. the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.


psychotherapy

/ ˌsaɪkəʊˈθɛrəpɪ; ˌsaɪkəʊˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪks /

noun

  1. the treatment of nervous disorders by psychological methods


psychotherapy

  1. The use of the techniques of psychology or psychiatry or both to treat mental and emotional disorders. The term includes psychoanalysis , as well as other forms of psychological therapy .


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Derived Forms

  • ˌpsychoˈtherapist, noun
  • ˌpsychoˌtheraˈpeutic, adjective
  • ˌpsychoˌtheraˈpeutically, adverb

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Other Words From

  • psycho·thera·pist noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of psychotherapy1

First recorded in 1890–95; psycho- + therapy

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Example Sentences

In an economy battered by the pandemic, with so many people having lost jobs and income, psychotherapy might seem to some people like a luxury.

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Outside that setting, however, it’s harder for patients to access bouldering psychotherapy.

Most sessions in psychotherapy are about an hour or an hour-and-a-half.

I think that this is a very powerful way to foster psychotherapy for almost any condition in which life experience contributes to the symptoms.

So, depression for many people, they respond beautifully to psychotherapy or an antidepressant, a standard what we call conventional antidepressant.

On set, my psychotherapy training greatly deepened the experience I had working with the writers, cast, and crew.

LSD, an illicit drug with a serious stigma, was once the darling of the psychotherapy world.

And, this was very rewarding because it was better than any form of psychotherapy.

But I have news for House Republicans that may help them more than years of psychotherapy or a crate of Paxil: You may still win.

I am not sure either has a real psychotherapy practice with clients who come to an office and pay for 50 minutes of talk therapy.

Later on two other physicians, Janet and Charcot, developed definite schools of "psychotherapy."

Or take the still more fascinating case of the young lady who is known in the literature of psychotherapy as Miss Beauchamp.

Psychotherapy is as old as the history of medicine and may be traced to the earliest ages.

Then there comes an emphatic expression of the value of psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy has always been an important element in most of the therapeutics of history.

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