psychotherapist  /ˌsaɪ kə ˈθɛ rə pɪst/ ? Meaning of "psychotherapist"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders

Usage(s):

  1. The rule creates a psychotherapist-patient privilege for the detainees, and greatly restricts the government's access to mental health records.
  2. Barbara Kass, a New York City psychotherapist and definitely a citizen of Woodstock Nation in the '60s, feels twinges of guilt about dyeing her long hair at 53.
  3. One afternoon not long after retiring, psychotherapist Bernice Bratter, 67, of Westwood Hills, Calif.

Quotes

  1. "My doctor, who is a psychotherapist, talks to me, asks about my pains and redirects my thinking to other things," Strel said. "It definitely helps to have someone to talk to when I'm not in the water."
    on Apr 7, 2007 By: Martin Strel Source: International Herald Tribune

  2. "I was a living contradiction," Mr. White writes. "I was still a self-hating gay man going to a straight psychotherapist with the intention of getting cured and getting married."
    on Sep 29, 2009 By: Edmund White Source: New York Times

  3. "I loved doing that show," Sommore, aka Lori Ann Rambough, says. "They gave me a trainer, a nutritionist and a psychotherapist. How could I say no? They paid me to lose weight. I lost it. Now I feel better and I think better."
    on Oct 28, 2009 By: Sommore Source: Dallas Morning News

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