Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Psychotherapy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
psychotherapy , 2. - noun The art of curing mental disease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy.
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- noun
psychotherapy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods
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Examples
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The same survey found that as of 2008, psychotherapeutics like stimulants and sedatives were the fourth most common drug of choice among 18- to 25-year-olds, with about 5 percent preferring them over alcohol, tobacco or marijuana.
Educators aware of prescription drug use, turn to prevention 2011
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There is reason to believe that the alliance of medicine and religion has come to stay, and that the present excitement over psychotherapeutics will settle down into a scientific utilization of religious motive and medical knowledge to prevent mental and moral disease.
Civics and Health William H. Allen
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_ Including a study of the chief points of psychotherapeutics and occultism.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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Bernheim inquires, and once more I agree that all forms of psychotherapeutics do, but there is a difference in analysis.
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Besides deliberate psychotherapy, there is not a little unconscious psychotherapeutics in the history of medicine.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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"Then you are a believer in homeopathic psychotherapeutics?"
Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907
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We can talk about faith cure, Christian Science, mind cure, hypnotism, psychotherapeutics, or any other forms of nerve cure which at the very best can only give the man a gentle shunt toward the middle of the stream of life.
Nerves and Common Sense Annie Payson Call 1896
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Yet the influence of these movements on the medical world remained insignificant until a new great wave of psychotherapeutics by means of suggestion began in France in the sixties.
Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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Schematic treatment is a poor treatment in every department of medicine, but in psychotherapeutics it is disastrous.
Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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Especially where the headache seems to result from hyperæmia, the trouble seems to be accessible to psychotherapeutics.
Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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