hypnotherapy

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hypno- +‎ therapy

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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.

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