psychotherapy
/ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/
psychotherapy noun: the treatment of people diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders using dialogue and a variety of psychological techniques.
Noun
psychotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural psychotherapies)
- The treatment of people diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders using dialogue and a variety of psychological techniques.
- In the future, he says, a focus on the hate circuit may open new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target this and other specific circuits in the brain.2011 October 4, Amanda MacMillan, “Depressed brains may hate differently”, in CNN
- Literally hundreds of studies have shown that on average psychotherapy works as well for these conditions as do medications.2014 January 24, Dr. Charles Raison, “Here’s what to do about your anxiety”, in CNN
psychotherapy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
psychotherapy in Hindi
- treatment of those with mental illness
- मनोचिकित्सा manocikitsā
psychotherapy in Tamil
- வசியத் துயில் முறை மருத்துவம், உள மருத்துவம், உளச்சிகிச்சை, உளவழி மருத்துவம்
psychotherapy in Bengali
- মনোচিকিৎসা
psychotherapy in Telugu
- treatment of those with mental illness
- మానసిక చికిత్స mānasika cikitsa
More languagesFewer languages
- psychotherapy in Kannada
- ಮಾನಸಿಕ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆ
- psychotherapy in Gujarati
- માનસોપચાર mānsopcār
- psychotherapy in Thai
- จิตบำบัด jìt-bam-bàt
- psychotherapy in Vietnamese
- tâm lý trị liệu
Examples of psychotherapy in a sentence
- Many millions of dollars are expended on drugs, diagnostic tests, and psychotherapies of a placebic nature.
- The smorgasbord of available therapies is already heavily laden with alternative psychotherapies without psychoanalysis adding further varieties of its own.
- Treatment of genuine transvestists by psychotherapy is not possible.
Forms of psychotherapy
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Origin of psychotherapy
From psycho- + therapy.
Words formed from psychotherapy
Questions about psychotherapy
- What does psychotherapy mean?
- Psychotherapy means the treatment of people diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders using dialogue and a variety of psychological techniques.
- What is psychotherapy in Hindi?
- Psychotherapy in Hindi is मनोचिकित्सा (manocikitsā). See Psychotherapy meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is psychotherapy?
- Psychotherapy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce psychotherapy?
- Psychotherapy is pronounced /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/.
- What is the plural of psychotherapy?
- The plural of psychotherapy is psychotherapies.
Words near psychotherapy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: psychotherapy (page history and authors); psychotherapy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); psychotherapy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); psychotherapy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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