Medical Dictionary
psychotherapy
Pronunciation (sī-kō-thār′ă-pē)
- Treatment of emotional, behavioral, personality, and psychiatric disorders based primarily on verbal or nonverbal communication and interventions with the patient, in contrast to treatments using chemical and physical measures. See entries under: psychoanalysis; psychiatry; psychology; therapy
Syn: psychotherapeutics
[psycho- + G. therapeia, treatment]
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