hypnotherapy

English

Etymology

hypno- +‎ therapy

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Noun

hypnotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural hypnotherapies)

1. 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 November 25, The Spectator:

     Scientific training is attempted in the...two-year Hypnotherapy Centre course.

Derived terms

• hypnotherapist
• hypnotherapeutic
• hypnotherapeutically

Translations

treatment of disease through hypnotism

• Armenian: հիպնոթերապիա (hipnotʻerapia)
• Catalan: hipnoteràpia f
• Dutch: hypnotherapie f
• Esperanto: hipnota terapio
• Finnish: hypnoterapia
• German: Hypnotherapie
• Italian: ipnositerapia f
• Korean: 최면치료(催眠治療) (choemyeonchiryo)
• Polish: hipnoterapia
• Portuguese: hipnoterapia f
• Russian: гипнотерапи́я (ru) f (gipnoterapíja)
• Slovene: hipnoterapija
• Spanish: hipnoterapia f
• Welsh: hypnotherapi m