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psychotherapy

UK/ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/US/ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,938 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: psychotherapies

Psychotherapy is longer treatment that works on patterns of thought and feeling. Begin psychotherapy, weekly psychotherapy, a course of psychotherapy.

It is talking treatment of many kinds rather than one method, and the strongest finding in the research is that the relationship with the therapist predicts the outcome better than the school of therapy does.

Mrmw · Public domain

Definitions of psychotherapy

  1. 1nounpsychotherapyLonger treatment that works on patterns of thought and feeling.B2+

    “After years of anxiety, she began psychotherapy to understand where her fears came from.”

psychotherapy is a treatment.

Where it comes from

  1. New Latin

    therapīa

  2. English

    therapy

  3. English, today

    psychotherapy

Built from

  • θεραπεύω · Ancient Greek — to serve, treat medically

From psycho- + therapy. therapy Borrowed from New Latin therapīa. From New Latin therapīa, from Ancient Greek θεραπεία (“service, medical treatment”), from θεραπεύω (“to serve, treat medically”) -ία.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Mental Health & Wellbeing

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psychotherapy in the wild

  • Numerous types of psychotherapy have been designed either for individual adults, families, or children and adolescents.

    Psychotherapy

  • Brief psychotherapy (also brief therapy, planned short-term therapy) is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches to short-term, solution-oriented psychotherapy.

    Brief psychotherapy

  • Branches also were developed by Alexander Lowen, and John Pierrakos, both patients and students of Reich, like Reichian body-oriented psychotherapy and Gerda Boyesen.

    Body psychotherapy

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the therapīa family

therapy

psychotherapy — used about once every 7,462 pages · #10,938 · point at the bar for the others

  • physiotherapist