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English
Etymology
From hypno- + therapy.
Pronunciation
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 November 25, The Spectator:Scientific training is attempted in the...two-year Hypnotherapy Centre course.
Derived terms
Translations
treatment of disease through hypnotism