hypnotherapy
(hɪpnəʊˈθɛrəpɪ)
[f. hypno- (taken as combining form of hypnosis) + therapy.]
Psychotherapy that involves the use of hypnotism.
| 1897 Lippincott's Med. Dict. 496/1 Hypnotherapy, the therapeutic use of hypnotism. 1907 Alienist & Neurologist XXVIII. 447 Constant current..cephalic galvanization..is a valuable addition to hypnotherapy, medical or otherwise, in psychiatry. 1931 A. Eiloart tr. Heyer's Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy xiii. 204 Occasionally impotence or spasm of the vagina..are suitable subjects for hypnotherapy. 1947 Lecron & Bordeaux Hypnotism Today xii. 196 Direct persuasive suggestion under hypnosis was the type of hypnotherapy used by the old medical practitioners of hypnotism. 1958 Sunday Times 17 Aug. 15/5 Hypnotherapy has a rightful place in medical treatment. 1960 Spectator 25 Nov. 838 Scientific training is attempted in the..two-year Hypnotherapy Centre course. |
Hence hypnoˈtherapist, one who employs hypnotherapy; ˌhypnotheraˈpeutic a., of or involving hypnotherapy; ˌhypnotheraˈpeutically adv.
| 1892 Jrnl. Mental Sci. XXXVIII. 522 (heading) Hypno-therapeutic treatment. 1944 Brenman & Gill Hypnotherapy (1947) iv. 79 Erickson..who frequently collaborates with psychoanalysts in his hypnotherapeutic work, often utilizes the insights of psychoanalysis. 1958 Spectator 15 Aug. 236/1 Hypnotherapist and hypnoanalyst. 1963 Hypnotherapeutic [see hypnoanalysis]. 1963 W. S. Kroger Clin. & Exper. Hypnosis xlvii. 323/2 Age-regression was hypnotherapeutically induced in several patients as an emergency measure to prevent suicide. 1970 Daily Tel. 8 June 11/4 Hypnotherapists have found that migraine has psychological causes. |