psychotherapy

English

Etymology

From psycho- +‎ therapy.

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

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.

Hyponyms

• psychoanalysis

 

Derived terms

• activity group psychotherapy

Related terms

• psychotherapeutic
• psychotherapist

 

Translations

treatment of those with mental illness

• Albanian: psikoterapia
• Armenian: հոգեթերապիա (hogetʻerapia)
• Asturian: sicoterapia f
• Azerbaijani: psixoterapiya
• Belarusian: псіхатэрапі́я f (psixaterapíja)
• Catalan: psicoteràpia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心理療法／心理疗法 (zh) (xīnlǐ liáofǎ), 心理治療／心理治疗 (zh) (xīnlǐ zhìliáo), 精神療法／精神疗法 (zh) (jīngshén liáofǎ), 精神治療／精神治疗 (jīngshén zhìliáo)

• Czech: psychoterapie (cs) f
• Danish: psykoterapi c
• Dutch: psychotherapie (nl) f
• Estonian: psühhoteraapia
• Finnish: psykoterapia (fi)
• French: psychothérapie (fr) f
• Galician: psicoterapia f
• Georgian: ფსიქოთერაპია (psikoteraṗia)
• German: Psychotherapie (de) f
• Greek: ψυχοθεραπεία (el) f (psychotherapeía)
• Gujarati: માનસોપચાર (mānsopcār)
• Hebrew: טיפול נפשי
• Hindi: मनोचिकित्सा (manocikitsā)
• Hungarian: pszichoterápia (hu)
• Irish: síciteiripe f
• Latvian: psihoterapija f
• Macedonian: психотерапија f (psihoterapija)
• Polish: psychoterapia (pl) f
• Portuguese: psicoterapia (pt) f
• Russian: психотерапи́я (ru) f (psixoterapíja)
• Spanish: psicoterapia (es) f
• Swedish: psykoterapi (sv)
• Telugu: మానసిక చికిత్స (mānasika cikitsa)
• Thai: จิตบำบัด (th) (jìt-bam-bàt)
• Turkish: psikoterapi (tr)
• Ukrainian: психотерапі́я f (psyxoterapíja)
• Vietnamese: tâm lý trị liệu