psychotherapeutics

[sahy-koh-ther-uh-pyoo-tiks]

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. psychotherapy.

Other Word Forms

• psychotherapeutic adjective
• psychotherapeutically adverb
• psychotherapeutist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of psychotherapeutics¹

First recorded in 1870–75; psycho- + therapeutics

Example Sentences

Now, in “Fires in the Dark,” her emphasis is on “psychotherapeutics,” which the English psychiatrist W.H.

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Many neurologists, responding to the demand for confessional healing, gave up on anatomy and adopted psychotherapeutics.

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Gary and Pam Shupe from Waldorf, Maryland, had driven up to shop and were staring at a row of television cameras, in front of an adjacent strip mall that advertised “psychotherapeutics services”.

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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.

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She began to teach her system of psychotherapeutics in 1866, and founded the first Christian Science Church in Boston in 1879.

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