psychotherapy

Noun
  1. The branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods (synset 106066454)
    is a type of: psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology - the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
    subtypes:
    same as: mental hygiene, psychotherapeutics
  2. The treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means (synset 100701905)
    associated with: free-associate - associate freely
    is a type of: therapy - (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.)
    subtypes:
    • behavior modification, behavior therapy - psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior
    • 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 psychotherapy, group therapy - psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist; interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic
    • hypnotherapy - the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy
    • play therapy - form of psychotherapy for children that uses play situations for diagnosis or treatment
    • analysis, depth psychology, psychoanalysis - a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud
    • self-analysis - the application of psychotherapeutic principles to the analysis of your own personality

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