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
They had written books, scattered through the years, on mesmerism, hypnosis, abnormal mental conditions, the powers of suggestion, even unexplored dimensions and in modern days psychotherapeutics.
From Robin by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Schematic treatment is a poor treatment in every department of medicine, but in psychotherapeutics it is disastrous.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
One word for my personal right to deal with these questions, as too much illegitimate psychotherapeutics is heard to-day.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
The exact diagnosis of the various conditions from which each patient is suffering is of itself a precious factor in psychotherapeutics.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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