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PSYCHOTHERAPIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders

Synonyms:

clinical psychologist; psychotherapist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("psychotherapist" is a kind of...):

healer; therapist (a person skilled in a particular type of therapy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychotherapist"):

Coue; Emile Coue (French psychotherapist who claimed that if one imagined one was getting better, one would get better (1857-1926))

Derivation:

psychotherapy (the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means)

psychotherapy (the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods)

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