#psychotherapy  the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means
  supertype:  #therapy  (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.); "the quarterback is undergoing treatment for a knee injury"; "he tried every treatment the doctors suggested"; "heat therapy gave the best relief"
  subtype:  #behavior_therapy__behavior_modification  psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior
     subtype:  #assertiveness_training__assertivenesstraining  a method of psychotherapy that reinforces you for stating negative and positive feelings directly
     subtype:  #aversion_therapy  any technique of behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli in a controlled fashion to alter behavior in a therapeutic way; primarily used for alcoholism or drug abuse (but with little success)
     subtype:  #desensitization_technique__desensitizationtechnique__desensitization_procedure__desensitizationprocedure__systematic_desinsitization  a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety; client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reaction is extinguished
     subtype:  #implosion_therapy__implosiontherapy__flooding  a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
     subtype:  #reciprocal_inhibition__reciprocal-inhibition_therapy  a method of behavior therapy based on the inhibition of one response by the occurrence of another response that is mutually incompatible with it; a relaxation response might be conditioned to a stimulus that previously evoked anxiety
     subtype:  #token_economy__tokeneconomy  a form of behavior therapy that has been used in some mental institutions; patients are rewarded with tokens for appropriate behavior and the tokens may be cashed in for valued rewards
  subtype:  #client-centered_therapy  a method of psychotherapy developed by Carl Rogers in which the client determines the focus and pace of each session
  subtype:  #crisis_intervention  psychotherapy that focuses on acute critical situations (depressive episodes or attempted suicides or drug overdoses) with the aim of restoring the person to the level of functioning before the crisis
  subtype:  #group_therapy__grouptherapy  psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist; interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic
     subtype:  #family_therapy  any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole
  subtype:  #hypnotherapy  the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy
  subtype:  #play_therapy  form of psychotherapy for children that uses play situations for diagnosis or treatment
  subtype:  #psychoanalysis__analysis__depth_psychology__depthpsychology  a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis"
     subtype:  #hypnoanalysis__hypnoanalysi  the use of hypnosis in conjunction with psychoanalysis
  subtype:  #self-analysis  the application of psychotherapeutic principles to the analysis of your own personality

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