psychotherapeuticsn.
/ˌsʌɪkəʊˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪks/, U.S. /ˈˌsaɪkəˌθɛrəˈpjudɪks/ The methods or practice of psychotherapy; the branch of medicine or science concerned with this.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > non-scientific treatments > [noun] > treatment by psychical influence
mind-healing1826
psychopathy1851
mind cure1855
phrenopathy1855
psychotherapeutics1872
mental healing1885
suggestion1887
psychotherapy1892
psychotherapeutica1901
the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > psychotherapy
psychotherapy1892
psychotherapeutica1901
psychotherapeutics1906
1872 D. H. Tuke Illustr. Infl. Mind upon Body p. ix The medical reader..I hope, may be induced to employ Psycho-therapeutics in a more methodical way than heretofore.
1887 F. P. Cobbe in Contemp. Rev. June 797 Who will step forward and help to clear the way for this science of Psycho-Therapeutics?
1889 C. L. Tuckey (title) Psycho-therapeutics; or, treatment by sleep and suggestion.
1900 A. F. Hopkirk tr. A. Moll (title) Hypnotism: Including a Study of the Chief Points of Psycho-therapeutics and Occultism.
a1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) II. 515 Suggestions involving..bodily odour and chemical conditions have thus far been confined to psycho-therapeutics.
1906 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 8 Nov. 542/1 A fundamental difficulty in psychotherapeutics up to this time has been a lack of method.
1933 Mind 42 114 Abnormal psychology..has generalised with a freedom astonishing to those who are familiar with the logical austerities of science. This may be allowed to psychotherapeutics, but not to anything that calls itself psychology.
1987 J. Klein Our Need for Others i. 7 Our understanding of psychotherapeutics, evolving over a hundred years, is being perfected all the time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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