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Psychotherapeutics

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Psychotherapy.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. psychotherapy

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The art of curing mental disease.

n. Same as psychotherapy, 2.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods

Word Usage

"There is reason to believe that the alliance of medicine and religion has come to stay, and that the present excitement over psychotherapeutics will settle down into a scientific utilization of religious motive and medical knowledge to prevent mental and moral disease."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

psychiatry psychopathology psychological medicine

Hyponym

jungian psychology clinical psychology freudian psychology

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

psychotherapy