Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The treatment of mental and emotional disorders through the use of psychological techniques designed to encourage communication of conflicts and insight into problems, with the goal being relief of symptoms, changes in behavior leading to improved social and vocational functioning, and personality growth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
psychotherapeutics . - noun Treatment of functional disease by mental suggestion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Psychotherapeutics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
treatment of people diagnosed withmental andemotional disorders usingdialogue and a variety ofpsychological techniques .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means
- noun the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods
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Examples
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Well, psychotherapy is real work and is often hard.
Dr. John Grohol: Psychotherapy Advice: 6 Ways to Get More Out of Your Therapy Session Dr. John Grohol 2010
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Women and Health is one of four voluntary organisations in Camden which has been providing free or low-cost longer-term psychotherapy and counselling, and referrals to us all have increased enormously with the introduction of IAPT.
Letters: It's good to talk – but cuts are putting services in danger 2011
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And Wanderer, in spite on somewhat interesting psychotherapy is affected by these feelings, and follows Melanie's clues to a renegade band of remaining humans, including her brother and love.
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And the psychotherapy is me – I only give practical suggestions to the students, but figuring out which ones to give is the part I find most intriguing.
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What we find in Schelling, as in much of Romantic psychology and some of its inheritors in modern psychotherapy, is that questions of psychology and questions of selfhood become intriguingly intertwined.
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Dr Richard House, a lecturer in psychotherapy at Roehampton University, and a researcher into the effects of television in young children, said he was not convinced that children who cut back on television would be immune from harm.
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“People have always thought, wrongly, that psychotherapy is a place to go deal with problems,” he said.
How Do I Love Thee? 2006
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“People have always thought, wrongly, that psychotherapy is a place to go deal with problems,” he said.
How Do I Love Thee? 2006
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“People have always thought, wrongly, that psychotherapy is a place to go deal with problems,” he said.
How Do I Love Thee? 2006
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She's in psychotherapy to deal with issues that surfaced during the past two years.
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