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psychotherapeutic, a. and n.|ps-, ˌsaɪkəʊθɛrəˈpjuːtɪk|
Also with hyphen.
[f. psycho- + therapeutic.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the treatment of disease by ‘psychic’, i.e. hypnotic, influence. Also, of, pertaining to, or characterized by psychotherapy.
1890in Cent. Dict. 1901Westm. Gaz. 2 Apr. 5/2 For the study of mesmerism, hypnotism, and other psychic phenomena and their adaptation to the cure and prevention of disease, the London Psycho-Therapeutic Society was inaugurated yesterday. 1914A. A. Brill tr. Freud's Psychopathol. Everyday Life v. 93 The psychotherapeutic procedure which I employ in the solution and removal of neurotic symptoms. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Nov. 659/4 That organized religion has been the greatest psychotherapeutic system ever invented is one of Jung's most famous dicta. 1963A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 51 All the large teaching hospitals have psychiatric out-patient departments of varying size and with more or less psychotherapeutic help to hand. 1970Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXIII. 194 Laffal has applied this approach in studies of..psychotherapeutic interviews. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 16 July 872/2 The spiritual healers either operate on the margin or they must be certified members or associates of a recognized psychotherapeutic fraternity.
B. n. in pl. form ˌpsychotheraˈpeutics. The subject of the treatment of disease by ‘psychic’, i.e. hypnotic, influence. Also = psychotherapy. Rarely in sing. form psychotherapeutic.
1872D. H. Tuke Illustrations of Influence of Mind on Body p. ix, The medical reader.., I hope, may be induced to employ Psycho-therapeutics in a more methodical way than heretofore. 1887F. P. Cobbe in Contemp. Rev. June 797 Who will step forward and help to clear the way for this science of Psycho-Therapeutics? 1889C. L. Tuckey (title) Psycho-Therapeutics; or, Treatment by Sleep and Suggestion. 1900Hopkirk tr. Moll (title) Hypnotism: Including a Study of the Chief Points of Psycho-therapeutics and Occultism. 1903F. W. H. Myers Hum. Personality II. 515 Suggestions involving..bodily odour and chemical conditions have thus far been confined to psycho-therapeutics. Ibid. 527 That form of psycho-therapeutic which consists in a clairvoyant diagnosis..followed perhaps by advice avowedly based upon a recollection of earthly learning. 1906Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 8 Nov. 542/1 A fundamental difficulty in psychotherapeutics up to this time has been a lack of method. 1933Mind XLII. 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.
So ˌpsychotheraˈpeutical a. = psychotherapeutic; psychotheraˈpeutically adv., by means of psychotherapy, in a psychotherapeutic manner; ˌpsychotheraˈpeutist, one skilled in or practising psychotherapeutics.
1902Academy 12 Apr. 388/1 For two and a half centuries a psycho-therapeutical institution has flourished in hundreds of English towns and villages, but it is usually called a Friends' Meeting. 1905Daily Chron. 5 May 4/4, ‘I would suggest’, said Mr. Arthur Hallam, of the Psychotherapeutists or Mind-Healers, ‘that you come and see us at work’. 1906Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. Oct. 499 The neurasthenic women..rested in bed, were isolated, and treated ‘psychotherapeutically’ much as were the hysterical. Ibid. 520 The psychotherapeutist should be an honest man and an expert clinician. 1909H. Münsterberg Psychotherapy p. ix, Since that time I have never ceased to work psycho⁓therapeutically in the psychological laboratory. 1957Listener 12 Sept. 401/1 The psycho-therapeutist..no longer confines his attention to the classical mental disorders, but,..has set up advisory centres to deal with problems of life or..mental hygiene, arising at almost any phase from infancy to senescence. 1962J. Money Reading Disability i. 17 Reading tuition is individualized, scholastically and psychotherapeutically, as much as economics permit. |