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Psychotherapeutic   /sˌaɪkoʊθˌɛrəpjˈutɪk/   Listen
Psychotherapeutic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or practicing psychotherapy.
2.
Emotionally purging.  Synonym: cathartic.






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"Psychotherapeutic" Quotes from Famous Books



... application of mental hygiene for moral and physical uplifting is the "moral clinic" or "psychotherapeutic" clinic established by Emmanuel Church in Boston. This clinic represents the union of three forces,—religion, medical diagnosis, mental hygiene. As a result of this alliance it is anticipated that both religion and medicine will be humanized, socialized, ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen

... psychotherapeutic as moral leader fills the role of guide (directeur-d'ames), one who helps along the doubter, encourages the toilers, calms the frightened, arouses courage, keeps up hope and comforts ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... the gains are enough to run these cantines. The girls are almost always good looking and well bred, and they look very serious in their white uniform with the red cross on the sleeves; and the psychotherapeutic influence is too strong for ...
— The Living Present • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... hypnotized anyone for mere experiment's sake but always only for medical purposes, yet I adjust my practical work entirely to the interests of my scientific study. The limitations of my time force me to refuse the psychotherapeutic treatment of any case which has not a certain scientific interest for me, and of the many hundreds whom I have helped in the laboratory, no one ever had to pay anything. Thus my practical work has strictly the character of ...
— Psychotherapy • Hugo Muensterberg

... of the term "moral treatment" as opposed to treatment of physical disease has in recent years become especially interesting. It is clear that Tuke and Pinel foresaw that psychotherapeutic treatment is necessary, and their efforts were directed towards providing effective "sublimation" of ...
— A Psychiatric Milestone - Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 • Various



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