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Definition of Psychotherapy
1. Noun. The branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods.
Generic synonyms: Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine, Psychopathology
Specialized synonyms: Clinical Psychology, Freudian Psychology, Jungian Psychology
Derivative terms: Psychotherapeutic, Psychotherapist
2. Noun. The treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means.
Specialized synonyms: Behavior Modification, Behavior Therapy, Client-centered Therapy, Crisis Intervention, Group Psychotherapy, Group Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Play Therapy, Analysis, Depth Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Self-analysis
Examples of category: Free-associate
Derivative terms: Psychotherapeutic, Psychotherapist
Definition of Psychotherapy
1. n. Psychotherapeutics.
Definition of Psychotherapy
1. Noun. The treatment of people diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders using dialogue and a variety of psychological techniques. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Psychotherapy
1. [n -PIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychotherapy
Literary usage of Psychotherapy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Overview of Addiction Treatment Effectiveness by Mim J. Landry (1996)
"Individual psychotherapy Early attempts to engage and treat addicted patients
with individual psychotherapy as the exclusive treatment approach were notable ..."
2. The Physiology of Faith and Fear: Or, The Mind in Health and Disease by William Samuel Sadler (1912)
"psychotherapy is a term which includes the modern methods of treating mental
disorders ... psychotherapy should not be confused with so-called mind cure. ..."
3. The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1909)
"psychotherapy.* By James H. Hyslop. Readers of this Journal will have remarked
that I have had occasion to criticize Prof. ..."
4. The Physiology of Faith and Fear: Or, The Mind in Health and Disease by William Samuel Sadler (1912)
"psychotherapy is a term which includes the modern methods of treating mental
disorders ... psychotherapy should not be confused with so-called mind cure. ..."
5. Papers on Psycho-analysis by Ernest Jones (1913)
"The two studies are peculiarly interwoven in the case of the psycho-analytic form
of psychotherapy, for, as I shall presently indicate, treatment is here ..."
6. Handbook of suggestive therapeutics, applied hypnotism, psychic science by Henry Sumner Munro (1912)
"As comprehended today, psychotherapy is as much in the domain of physical and
physiological therapeutics as is medicine, electricity, hydrotherapy, massage, ..."
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