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psychotherapeutic

American  
[sahy-koh-ther-uh-pyoot-ik] / ˌsaɪ koʊˌθɛr əˈpyut ɪk /

adjective

  1. relating to, making use of, or involving psychotherapy.


Other Word Forms

  • non-psychotherapeutic adjective
  • psychotherapeutical adjective
  • psychotherapeutically adverb
  • psychotherapeutics noun

Example Sentences

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If the FDA approves Lykos’ application in August, it would be the first time in the agency’s history that a psychotherapeutic process was approved alongside a drug treatment.

From Slate • Jun. 13, 2024

The most effective treatment method is exposure: By confronting the fear-inducing situations or stimuli under psychotherapeutic supervision, patients learn to overcome their fear.

From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2024

We can intervene from many directions: legal, educational, law enforcement, psychotherapeutic, and social-environmental, reducing violence incrementally.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2022

These patients, he wrote, are “extremely difficult to handle effectively by any psychotherapeutic method.”

From Scientific American • Jan. 19, 2022

The more we recognize the myriad symptoms in the hysteric patient as products of the emotional instability, of autosuggestibility and of inhibition, the more we understand the almost miraculous result of psychotherapeutic treatment.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo