psychotherapeuticaladj.

1902 Academy 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.

1924 Times 9 Jan. 7/3 This is clearly an important part of any psycho-therapeutical treatment, but it should not be carried out by unqualified persons.

1970 Hist. Relig. 10 114 The large majority of psychologists have so far felt unable to accept the conclusions at which Fodor had arrived in his psychotherapeutical practice.

1990 Acta Paedopsychiatrica 53 291 (title) The problems of the employment of child and adolescent psychotherapeutical care.

1906 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. Oct. 499 The neurasthenic women..rested in bed, were isolated, and treated ‘psychotherapeutically’ much as were the hysterical.

1962 J. Money Reading Disability i. 17 Reading tuition is individualized, scholastically and psychotherapeutically, as much as economics permit.

1991 E. Rayner Independent Mind in Brit. Psychoanal. xi. 267 Community methods have made it possible for very disturbed families to be worked with psychotherapeutically. Many of these families are on the local authority's ‘at risk’ register and may be the subject of a treatment order from the court.