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psychotherapeutic

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to psychotherapeutics.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to psychotherapeutics (psychotherapy)
  • adjective Cathartic

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective emotionally purging
  • adjective of or relating to or practicing psychotherapy

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Examples

  • Crissy Duff, a psychotherapeutic counsellor, said this combination of a more critical upbringing and attributed negative personality types can have a long-lasting and serious effect on daughters.

    Most mums admit favouring sons, say researchers Amelia Hill 2010

  • Didactic seminars occurring during a protected day emphasize normal development, phenomenology, psychopathology, psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic interventions, consultation strategies, and research methodology.

    Psychiatry 2010

  • Still, the old Bogart persists, like Hamlet's ghost, beneath the politically correct battlements of America and its whining, psychotherapeutic opportunism and puritanism.

    Cool Is as Cool Was Henry Allen 2011

  • It is, instead, his unrelenting self-absorption, compelling him to put all of us through is personal ongoing psychodrama – stuff that belongs behind closed doors with only a psychotherapeutic professional as his audience.

    Sanford's book project still a mystery 2009

  • Dr. Orne diagnosed her with bipolar disorder, but his competence to do so is called into question by his early use of unsound psychotherapeutic techniques.

    sylvia plath & anne sexton | the art & the artists of self destruction no. 1 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Thus stoicism saves where incontinent self-expression destroys: an interesting thought, perhaps, for a psychotherapeutic age.

    In Chile, the Lessons of Isolation Theodore Dalrymple 2010

  • As a larger group, Asian Americans have a reputation for not cottoning to Western notions of psychological health—one survey that compared attitudes of Asian American and Caucasian American college students found that Asian Americans were more likely to believe that psychotherapeutic probing caused mental illness.

    The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

  • She says it has greatly helped her psychotherapeutic treatment for anxiety from her advanced ovarian cancer.

    Psychedelic Drugs Aid Anxiety Treatments | Impact Lab 2010

  • As a larger group, Asian Americans have a reputation for not cottoning to Western notions of psychological health—one survey that compared attitudes of Asian American and Caucasian American college students found that Asian Americans were more likely to believe that psychotherapeutic probing caused mental illness.

    The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

  • A video of Frank O'Hara reading poetry, and two film farces by Rudy Burckhardt — exploring psychotherapeutic transference and money-lust, respectively — add an auditory backdrop to this show, in which artists Nell Blaine, Joe Brainard, Alfred Leslie, Ms. Mitchell

    Going From the Abstract to the Sort-Of Concrete Lance Esplund 2011

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