psychotherapeutics
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of psychotherapeutics
First recorded in 1870–75; psycho- + therapeutics
Example Sentences
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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
Cerebral apoplexy is an extremely serious organic disease that seems surely to be an affection for which psychotherapeutics can mean little or nothing.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
The whole system of such religious psychotherapeutics is therefore in its inner structure contradictory.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
Schematic treatment is a poor treatment in every department of medicine, but in psychotherapeutics it is disastrous.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
With so much accomplished in the past by indirection, there can be no doubt but that important advances in psychotherapeutics must result from the extension of its deliberate use.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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