I]f there's one thing my experience as a psychotherapist has taught me, it is that no one has to be a victim.
Numerous studies have shown that up to half of the individuals who are referred to a psychotherapist have undiagnosed organic problems.
LeShan is a psychotherapist in New York City who teaches many of his clients meditation as part of their therapy.
Some fifteen years ago a psychotherapist in New York told me about the discoveries of a physician in Vienna, and gave me some pamphlets, written in very difficult and technical German.
Yet before we analyze some typical symptoms, it might be wise to review the whole series of means and tools which the psychotherapistfinds at his disposal.
At last memories and lost emotions come again to the surface, and the watchfulpsychotherapist may discover the complex, which is then to be removed by discharge or by side-tracking.
For the cure the psychotherapist has to aim toward the cathartic result.
The "fear of a fear" is indeed a symptom which the psychotherapist has to fight extremely often, but as soon as he has really recognized it and analyzed the whole mental condition, he will hardly have any difficulty in uprooting it.
He feels sure that he is not accessible to suggestion and that he has least of all a tendency to autosuggestions, but the skillful psychotherapist will find somewhere an opening for the entering wedge.
Voluntary effort is needed, and this is the field where the psychotherapist must put in his most intelligent effort.
Before we enter into the study of the practical effects of suggestion and the psychotherapeutic results, we must examine this tool in the hand of the psychotherapist from a purely psychological viewpoint.
The psychotherapist nowadays calls these groups of traces "complexes.
We simply separate the mental symptoms and the bodily symptoms which the psychotherapist is to remove.
A forcible book of recent days calls the suggestive power of the psychotherapist "The Great Psychological Crime.
For that end society may take over directly from the workshop of the psychotherapist quite a number of almost technical methods.
The same holds true of the power of the psychotherapist to secure sleep.
But no one ought to expect that thepsychotherapist can secure miracles like some of the pill cures which treat the drug fiend in three days.
Among our patients we see many so-called immoral tendencies, therefore the thought involuntarily forces itself upon the psychotherapist as to how things would go if all these desires were to be gratified.
Dream-analysis leads us into the deepest personal secrets, and it is therefore an invaluable instrument in the hand of the psychotherapist and educator.
Above all, as the psychotherapist sees at once, it will occupy her mind, keep down anxiety and lessen pain in many natural ways, besides encouraging concentration of attention on muscular effort instead of on painful sensation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "psychotherapist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: analyst; psychiatrist; shrink; therapist
