psychotherapy

From psycho- +‎ therapy.

• enPR: sīkōthĕr'əpē, IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/

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psychotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural psychotherapies)

1. The treatment of people diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders using dialogue and a variety of psychological techniques.
   • 2011 October 4, Amanda MacMillan, “Depressed brains may hate differently”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     In the future, he says, a focus on the hate circuit may open new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target this and other specific circuits in the brain.

   • 2014 January 24, Dr. Charles Raison, “Here’s what to do about your anxiety”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Literally hundreds of studies have shown that on average psychotherapy works as well for these conditions as do medications.

• activity group psychotherapy