hypnotherapy

noun

hyp·​no·​ther·​a·​py ˌhip-nō-ˈther-ə-pē How to pronounce hypnotherapy (audio)
1
: treatment by hypnotism
2
: psychotherapy that facilitates suggestion, reeducation, or analysis by hypnosis
hypnotherapist noun

Examples of hypnotherapy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Alongside hypnotherapy, Sunseri incorporates NLP into her therapeutic approach. Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 20 May 2024 In addition to breathwork and contrast therapy, the hotel also offers daily yoga or Pilates classes in a spacious Shala, weekly hypnotherapy, meditation and emotional freedom technique sessions, and boasts an infrared and chromolight thermal room with Himalayan salt tiles. Livia Hengel, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024 The new doctor suggested that Zack try one last treatment before surgery: hypnotherapy, in which a clinical professional helps a patient become deeply focused and relaxed in order to change their patterns of thinking. Kate Wheeling, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2023 Dolores Cannon, who refined a method of regressive hypnotherapy by which subjects felt able to encounter their own past lives, has been an enormous consolation and inspiration to me during times of anxiety and 21st-century world-fear. New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for hypnotherapy 

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Word History

First Known Use

1897, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of hypnotherapy was in 1897

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“Hypnotherapy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypnotherapy. Accessed 20 Aug. 2024.

Medical Definition

hypnotherapy

noun
hyp·​no·​ther·​a·​py -ˈther-ə-pē How to pronounce hypnotherapy (audio)
plural hypnotherapies
1
: treatment by hypnotism
2
: psychotherapy that facilitates suggestion, reeducation, or analysis by means of hypnosis
hypnotherapeutic adjective
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