psychotherapeutics

[ sahy-koh-ther-uh-pyoo-tiks ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

1. psychotherapy.

Other Words From

• psycho·thera·peutic adjective
• psycho·thera·peuti·cal·ly adverb
• psycho·thera·peutist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of psychotherapeutics¹

First recorded in 1870–75; psycho- + therapeutics

Example Sentences

Now, in “Fires in the Dark,” her emphasis is on “psychotherapeutics,” which the English psychiatrist W.H.

From New York Times

Many neurologists, responding to the demand for confessional healing, gave up on anatomy and adopted psychotherapeutics.

From The New Yorker

Gary and Pam Shupe from Waldorf, Maryland, had driven up to shop and were staring at a row of television cameras, in front of an adjacent strip mall that advertised “psychotherapeutics services”.

From The Guardian

The actual place of dreams in psychology, then, becomes an important consideration in psychotherapeutics.

From Project Gutenberg

She began to teach her system of psychotherapeutics in 1866, and founded the first Christian Science Church in Boston in 1879.

From Project Gutenberg