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

Armenian: հիպնոթերապիա (hipnotʿerapia)
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

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