PSYCHOTHERAPIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychotherapist mean? 

• PSYCHOTHERAPIST (noun)
  The noun PSYCHOTHERAPIST has 1 sense:

1. a therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders

  Familiarity information: PSYCHOTHERAPIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSYCHOTHERAPIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A therapist who deals with mental and emotional disorders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

clinical psychologist; psychotherapist

Hypernyms ("psychotherapist" is a kind of...):

healer; therapist (a person skilled in a particular type of therapy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychotherapist"):

Coue; Emile Coue (French psychotherapist who claimed that if one imagined one was getting better, one would get better (1857-1926))

Derivation:

psychotherapy (the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means)

psychotherapy (the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods)

 Context examples 

This would be an ideal time to see a psychotherapist if you want to get clarity about something that has been troubling you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Examples of interpretation include rendering by the psychotherapist the latent or hidden meaning of what the patient says, does, or experiences in understandable to him format; the conception of another's behavior; the establishment of significance of something; the result of EKG tracing reading.

(Interpretation, NCI Thesaurus)