hypnotherapy

hypnotherapy
1. Psychotherapeutic treatment by means of hypnotism. 2. Treatment of disease by inducing a trance-like sleep.

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hyp·no·ther·a·py -'ther-ə-pē n, pl -pies
1) treatment by hypnotism
2) psychotherapy that facilitates suggestion, reeducation, or analysis by means of hypnosis
hyp·no·ther·a·peu·tic -.ther-ə-'pyüt-ik adj

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n.
any form of psychotherapy that utilizes hypnosis.

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hyp·no·ther·a·py (hip″no-therґə-pe) [hypno- + therapy] the use of hypnosis in the treatment of disease.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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