| BPsTh | Bachelor of Psychotherapy |
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| IFMP | International Federation for Medical Psychotherapy |
| IPT | immunoperoxidase technique; immunoprecipitation; interpersonal psychotherapy; isoproterenol |
| psychother | psychotherapy |
| PT | pain threshold; parathormone; parathyroid; paroxysmal tachycardia; part time; patient; pericardial t... |
| psychotherapy, multiple | The use of more than one therapist at one time in individual or group psychotherapy. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| psychotherapy, rational-emotive | The replacement of illogical and unrealistic ideas with more realistic and adaptive ones through direct intervention and confrontation by the therapist. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hypnotic psychotherapy | Psychotherapy based on hypnosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nondirective psychotherapy | Psychotherapy in which the therapist follows the lead of the patient during the interview rather than introducing her or his own theories and directing the course of the interview. See: client-centreed therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suggestive psychotherapy | Psychotherapy utilizing the influence and authority of the therapist. See: directive psychotherapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| supportive psychotherapy | Psychotherapy aiming at bolstering the patient's psychological defenses and providing him or her reassurance, as in crisis intervention, rather than probing provocatively into his or her conflicts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| directive psychotherapy | Psychotherapy utilizing the authority of the therapist to direct the course of the patient's therapy, as contrasted with nondirective psychotherapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dyadic psychotherapy | A psychotherapeutic session involving only two persons, the therapist and the patient. Compare: group psychotherapy. Synonym: individual therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dynamic psychotherapy | Psychotherapy utilizing freudian principles. See: psychoanalysis. Synonym: dynamic psychotherapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intensive psychotherapy | Psychotherapy involving thorough exploration of the patient's life history, conflicts, and related psychodynamics; often contrasted with supportive psychotherapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transactional psychotherapy | Psychotherapy with central emphasis on the actual day-to-day interactions (transactions) between the patient and other people in his life. (05 Mar 2000) |
| existential psychotherapy | A type of therapy, based on existential philosophy, emphasizing confrontation, primarily spontaneous interaction, and feeling experiences rather than rational thinking, with less attention given to patient resistances; the therapist is involved on the same level and to the same degree as the patient. Synonym: existential psychiatry. (05 Mar 2000) |