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mental healing

American  

noun

  1. the healing of a physical ailment or disorder by mental concentration or suggestion.


mental healing British  

noun

  1. the healing of a disorder by mental concentration or suggestion

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of mental healing

First recorded in 1885–90

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I had mental healing of my own to do, and I didn’t have the energy.

From Salon May 4, 2024

“As I work on my own mental healing, I wanted to share my experience so that other heart parents know they are not alone.”

From Time Aug. 8, 2016

"As I work on my own mental healing, I wanted to share my experience so that other heart parents know they are not alone."

From US News Aug. 7, 2016

No specialist, but the organizer of specialists and prime U. S. exemplar of mental healing is Clifford Whittingham Beers, 54.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is so familiar it seems almost too commonplace to repeat, yet it constitutes the special phenomenon that lies at the base of psychotherapeutics, or the mental healing of physical ills.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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