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psychotherapy

A Dictionary of Sociology | 1998 | | © A Dictionary of Sociology 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

psychotherapy An imprecise term that may embrace a wide variety of psychological methods of treatment, group or individual, provided by specialist therapists for the treatment of mental and behavioural problems (usually non-psychotic). Psychotherapy may include directive therapies involving suggestion, such as hypnosis, as well as non-directive, behavioural, and psycho-dynamic therapies. Narrowly defined, it denotes psychoanalytic therapies, excluding full psychoanalysis.

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