hypnotherapy

English

Etymology

hypno- +‎ therapy

Noun

hypnotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural hypnotherapies)

Treatment of disease by means of hypnotism.
- 1897 - Lippincott's Medical Dictionary
  Hypnotherapy, the therapeutic use of hypnotism.
- 1947 Leslie M. Lecron & Jean Bordeaux, Hypnotism Today
  Direct persuasive suggestion under hypnosis was the type of hypnotherapy used by the old medical practitioners of hypnotism.
- 1960 The Spectator, November 25
  Scientific training is attempted in the...two-year Hypnotherapy Centre course.

Derived terms

Translations

treatment of disease through hypnotism

Dutch: hypnotherapie
Esperanto: hipnota terapio
Finnish: hypnoterapia
German: Hypnotherapie
Italian: ipnositerapia f

Polish: hipnoterapia
Portuguese: hipnoterapia f
Russian: гипнотерапи́я (ru) f (gipnoterapíja)
Slovene: hipnoterapija
Spanish: hipnoterapia f

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