psychotherapeutics
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- psychotherapeutic adjective
- psychotherapeutically adverb
- psychotherapeutist noun
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
The exact diagnosis of the various conditions from which each patient is suffering is of itself a precious factor in psychotherapeutics.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
This second function of our remedial measures directed against cough can at least be assisted very materially by psychotherapeutics.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
One word for my personal right to deal with these questions, as too much illegitimate psychotherapeutics is heard to-day.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
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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