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

One word for my personal right to deal with these questions, as too much illegitimate psychotherapeutics is heard to-day.

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It is this law of attention that must be taken advantage of for psychotherapeutics.

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

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Especially where the headache seems to result from hyperæmia, the trouble seems to be accessible to psychotherapeutics.

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The whole system of such religious psychotherapeutics is therefore in its inner structure contradictory.

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