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What is the adjective for psychotherapy?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs psych, psyche, psychologize and psychologise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

psychical
  1. Performed by or pertaining to the mind or spirit; mental, psychic. [from 17th c.]
  2. (theology) Pertaining to the animal nature of man, as opposed to the spirit. [from 18th c.]
  3. Outside the realm of the physical; supernatural, psychic. [from 19th c.]
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “I do not wish to assert that all unfamiliar psychical states are necessarily evolutive or dissolutive in any assignable manner.”
      “If humans possessed unknown psychical abilities, could the same be said of animals?”
      “Railways, psychical research, and the combing of graveyards were other enthusiasms.”
psyched
psychological
  1. Of or pertaining to psychology.
  2. Without an objective, or reasonably logical foundation.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “With scientific fervor, he began building up the details of the crime according to psychological reasoning.”
      “Even while his back was failing, the Spaniard's psychological fortitude and ability to handle pressure was exemplary.”
      “Even when their problems are psychological or social, patients usually present with physical symptoms.”
psychic
  1. Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.
  2. Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “It is thus also true that there are psychic disorders caused by organic defects, particularly defects of the brain and the nervous system.”
      “He said he would able to speak to our deceased grandmother through the use of his psychic powers.”
psychotolytic
  1. (medicine) That reduces the severity of psychosis; antipsychotic.
psychologic
  1. Of or pertaining to the science of psychology.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Although it is usually difficult to find the person responsible for printers' errors, the psychologic mechanisms underlying them are the same as in other mistakes.”
      “It is unclear whether psychologic or muscle tension is actually present and, if present, whether these are primary events or epiphenomena.”
      “The psychologic after-effects include trauma, fear, insomnia, anxiety, depression and attempted suicide.”
psychotactical
  1. (rare) Of or relating to psychological tactics.
  2. Examples:
    1. “They provide a market for the kind of psychotactical manual that tells women how to stand up, inwardly as well as outwardly, to the men they live and work with.”
psycho
psychotoid
  1. (medicine) Resembling psychosis.
psychotic
  1. Of, related to, or suffering from psychosis.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Enrique's face is twisted into a rictus grin, and he lets out the unmistakable chortle of sheer psychotic derangement.”
psychologistic
  1. Of or pertaining to psychologism.
psychologistlike
  1. Resembling a psychologist.
psychologylike
  1. Resembling psychology.
psychotogenic
psych
  1. (informal) Psychedelic.
psyching
  1. present participle of psyche
psyching
  1. present participle of psyche
psychologized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of psychologize
psychologizing
  1. present participle of psychologize
psychologised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of psychologise
psychologising
  1. present participle of psychologise
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