teleotherapeutics

teleotherapeutics

Alternative medicine
Therapy that is said to be effected without direct contact between the healing agent and the patient; distant healing.
Psychiatry
(1) Hypnosis, see there.
(2) Psychotherapy, see there.

teleotherapeutics

(tel?e-o-ther-a-pu'tiks) [Gr. tele, distant, + therapeutikos, treating] The use of hypnotic suggestion in the treatment of disease. Synonym: suggestive therapeutics