psychotherapy

[ sahy-koh-ther-uh-pee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural psy·cho·ther·a·pies.

the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.

psychotherapy

/ ˌsaɪkəʊˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪks; ˌsaɪkəʊˈθɛrəpɪ /

psychotherapy

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 .

First recorded in 1890–95; psycho- + therapy

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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