Kostrubala has attempted to describe a particular approach to running that seems to have definite psychotherapeutic value.
If this were all that it meant, however, prayer would not be a religious but a psychotherapeutic exercise.
Even in slight psychasthenic disturbances, the psychotherapeutic influence is not always successful, especially if there is no time for full treatment.
But one rule is common to all of them: never use psychotherapeutic methods in a schematic way like a rigid pattern.
Psychotherapeutic hospitals would offer the most favorable conditions for such coöperation.
On the other hand, every physician who uses psychotherapeutic means is surprised to see the effective bodily readjustment where serious disturbances perhaps of the circulatory system or the digestive system existed.
Even where cure by psychotherapeutic means is out of the question, as is the case with feverish delirium or uræmic excitements, no skilled physician ignores the aid which a well-adjusted mental influence can offer to the patient.
Psychotherapeutic methods demand much time and patience and skill.
But we have emphasized from the start that the psychotherapeutic work has not only to set in when the disturbance itself lies in the psychophysical system.
I decided to make the somewhat disproportionate sacrifice of time in order to study whether even such an extreme case of morphinism is accessible to psychotherapeutic treatment.
Wherever psychotherapeutic work is in question, perhaps nothing is more important than to keep steadily in mind this continuity between normal and abnormal mental features.
The variety of the psychotherapeutic methods is great and only some types are to be characterized here.
The first chapters of this volume may appear like a long, tiresome way around before we come to our goal, the study of the psychotherapeutic agencies.
Every physician has in himself the necessary means for a psychotherapeutic treatment in every form.
At the same time, his mother should be urged to seek psychotherapeutic guidance through contact with a family agency.
In general it seems to me that it is a great educational advantage to keep open the experiences that connect us with the past of the race, and it may have a psychotherapeutic value which we do not now dream.
The patient was inaccessible to psychotherapeutic influence.
With this hysterical picture, treatment of a psychotherapeuticnature was carried out.
Both physician and patient suffer if the patient is treated along psychotherapeutic lines for hysterical symptoms, some of which turn out on investigation to be functional enough but non-psychic.
Rivers’ psychotherapeuticplan of finding a redeeming feature in the experience, upon which the patient might concentrate, failed because there was no redeeming feature.
And we know that phosphorus is certainly connected with the activities of the nervous system--even though it be not so intimately as before supposed.
Yet we are thoroughly familiar with our own bodies, and know how they work.
It seems to me that the answer to this question can only be found by assuming some such theory of the facts as the following: When a person falls asleep, he loses consciousness when en rapport with himself.
The same is also confirmed from exposition of Holy Scripture.
Even if genuine spirit-messages are at times received, it is highly probable that the bulk of the messages are the product of the medium's subliminal, which catches up and amplifies the original external impetus received from without.
The deeper the trance, the more the medium is in touch with the other world, the less with this; and vice versa.
The account of his experiments was originally published in my book, Death: its Causes and Phenomena, but they are now included here as being more in line with other experiments recently undertaken in this field.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "psychotherapeutic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
