If this were all that it meant, however, prayer would not be a religious but a psychotherapeutic exercise. |
The only one that has been put with any force in favour of work which has no pretensions to literary or artistic merit, is that it may have a psychotherapeutic value. |
Prominent among them is the psychotherapeutic effect of a formal assurance. |
The first four levels of verbal validation are common in many psychotherapeutic models. |
Shamanic and other ritual may effect a psychotherapeutic cure, leading anthropologists such as Jane Atkinson to theorize how. |
And psychotherapeutic effort will often demand such a training for work rather than a reduction of work and rest. |