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Paying someone to listen so the voice in your head learns new manners.
means Treatment for emotional or mental difficulties through structured talking with a trained professional, rather than through drugs or surgery.
from Built from Greek psyche, 'soul' or 'mind' (originally the breath that left the body at death, later personified as the maiden Psyche in myth), plus therapeia, 'treatment' or 'service,' from therapeuein, 'to attend, to nurse, to heal.' The compound surfaced in the late 1800s as doctors began treating nervous and mental disorders through talk and suggestion rather than tonics or the knife — a quietly radical idea that the mind could be tended like a wound.
- placebo check
- works even when therapist and client speak different theories
- real ingredient
- relationship quality predicts outcome more than technique
- freud footnote
- couch originated so he could avoid eye contact all day
- dosage effect
- most benefit arrives within the first eight sessions