psychotherapeutics
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Origin of psychotherapeutics
First recorded in 1870–75; psycho- + therapeutics
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Many neurologists, responding to the demand for confessional healing, gave up on anatomy and adopted psychotherapeutics.
From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019
That does not mean that the field in which psychotherapeutics may work directly on the body is not after all a large and interesting one.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
Especially where the headache seems to result from hyperæmia, the trouble seems to be accessible to psychotherapeutics.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
Scientific medicine should take hold of psychotherapeutics now or a most deplorable disorganization will set in, the symptoms of which no one ought to overlook to-day.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
When she can thus conceal her own solicitude, a near relative may be the best possible auxiliary in psychotherapeutics.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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