Meaning of therapy in English:

nountherapies

• 1Treatment intended to relieve or heal a disorder.

  ‘a course of antibiotic therapy’

  count noun ‘cancer therapies’

  More example sentences

  • ‘These medical therapies are aimed at reducing the viral load and hence induce early remission.’
  • ‘Genomics is promoting a tremendous interest in novel therapies of which gene therapies will be only a minority.’
  • ‘Many health and fitness salons provide hair salons, beauty treatments and massage therapies.’
  • ‘The subject of alternative therapies for cancer stirs quite a debate within the field of oncology.’
  • ‘He adds that in the future this gene may also be used as a specific target for cancer therapies.’
  • ‘Combination therapies usually contain drugs from two of these classes.’
  • ‘Whether in the guise of new drugs or new therapies, technology is costly.’
  • ‘The holistic therapies might lead medicine back towards the holism of the ancient systems.’
  • ‘Biological therapies help the body's immune system to attack cancer cells.’
  • ‘Many patients receiving these new therapies respond rapidly to them and get a lot of clinical benefit.’
  • ‘Many of the standard radiation and drug therapies now used to treat cancers can have serious side effects.’
  • ‘Prices have gone up a bit, but, as with all holistic therapies, the more you pay the more it's worth.’
  • ‘They may have tried over-the-counter preparations, dietary exclusions, or alternative therapies.’
  • ‘The preferable option would be for these therapies to be administered in the patient's home or workplace.’
  • ‘Complementary therapies such as osteopathy and acupuncture are popular.’
  • ‘Combining two or more of these therapies has a cumulative effect on pain reduction.’
  • ‘New targeted therapies are largely responsible for the increased survival rates.’
  • ‘However, drug therapies that target the dopamine system may be on the horizon.’
  • ‘He believes more and more people are turning to homeopathy, herbal medicine, and other therapies.’
  • ‘Gene therapies could allow new approaches, or help existing treatments work better.’
  • ‘Hormone therapy will bring about physical and perhaps psychogenic changes.’

  Synonyms

  treatment, remedy, cure, remedial treatment, method of healing

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  1. 1.1The treatment of mental or psychological disorders by psychological means.
     ‘he is currently in therapy’
     as modifier ‘therapy sessions’
     More example sentences

     • ‘You know it was bad enough in therapy having to relive my childhood but this is so much worse.’
     • ‘Relate offers both a diploma and a Masters in couples therapy, as well as a diploma in psychosexual therapy.’
     • ‘The evidence concerns a kind of psychological therapy known as debriefing.’
     • ‘I may end up in therapy for months and the potential for embarrassment is endless.’
     • ‘Judy was in therapy for months, before stopping it entirely back in January.’
     • ‘She has confessed she has been in therapy because she thinks she's a bad mother.’
     • ‘Arthur sounds like someone who has been in therapy; he sounds, in fact, like my dad.’
     • ‘If you couldn't hold out the hope of being able to deal with the problem, there would be no point in therapy at all.’
     • ‘Low sexual desire is rapidly becoming the most common issue treated in psychosexual therapy.’
     • ‘I made the point that psychological research and therapy have two extremely different goals.’
     • ‘He is also having weekly therapy sessions with a clinical psychiatrist to keep him sane.’
     • ‘All three films feel like confessionals, or more accurately therapy sessions.’
     • ‘I've been thinking about therapy so now the possibility or seeing my old psychologist looms.’
     • ‘Mental training can, like therapy, take time to produce the desired effects.’
     • ‘Two years ago she told a magazine that her childhood scars drove her to seek therapy.’
     • ‘He was a devotee of therapy and continued to see his psychoanalyst in the home.’
     • ‘While attending the therapy sessions he noted a slight improvement in his condition.’
     • ‘As interested as you no doubt are in my childhood days, this is not a public therapy session.’
     • ‘One visit to the local psychotherapist later it's his parents that need the therapy not him.’
     • ‘There is also psychotherapy which uses the birth chart as an aid to the therapy process.’
     Synonyms

     psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, analysis

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