psychotherapeutics
Americannoun
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Etymology
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
Yet the influence of these movements on the medical world remained insignificant until a new great wave of psychotherapeutics by means of suggestion began in France in the sixties.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
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 James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Bernheim inquires, and once more I agree that all forms of psychotherapeutics do, but there is a difference in analysis.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
With regard to all headaches, however, even the most genuine variety, there are certain considerations that are of value from the standpoint of psychotherapeutics.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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