Meaning | The treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means. |
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Category of | free-associate | associate freely |
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Narrower | behavior therapy, behavior modification | psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior |
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client-centered therapy | A method of psychotherapy developed by Carl Rogers in which the client determines the focus and pace of each session |
crisis intervention | psychotherapy that focuses on acute critical situations (depressive episodes or attempted suicides or drug overdoses) with the aim of restoring the person to the level of functioning before the crisis |
group therapy, group psychotherapy | psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist |
hypnotherapy | The use of hypnosis in psychotherapy |
play therapy | form of psychotherapy for children that uses play situations for diagnosis or treatment |
psychoanalysis, analysis, depth psychology | A set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders |
self-analysis | The application of psychotherapeutic principles to the analysis of your own personality |
Broader | therapy | (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.) |
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Spanish | psicoterapia |
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Catalan | psicoteràpia |
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Adjectives | psychotherapeutic | of or relating to or practicing psychotherapy |
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Nouns | psychotherapist | a therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders |
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