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PSYCHOTHERAPEUTICS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
The branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods
Synonyms:
mental hygiene; psychotherapeutics; psychotherapy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("psychotherapeutics" is a kind of...):
psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychotherapeutics"):
clinical psychology (the branch of psychology concerned with the treatment of abnormal mentation and behavior)
Freudian psychology (the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud)
Jungian psychology (the psychological theories of Carl Jung)