- 1
Psychotherapy is treatment for mental illness and deep distress — depression is a common example — by talking and working through problems, rather than by drugs alone. You meet regularly with a trained person; together you look at thoughts, feelings, and what happened to you. There are many named kinds (some short and practical, some longer and about the whole life story), but the shared idea is healing through conversation and attention.
Psychotherapy心理治療 is treatment指的是治療 for mental illness and deep distress針對精神疾病和很深的痛苦 — depression is a common example憂鬱症就是常見的例子 — by talking and working through problems靠著談話和處理問題來進行, rather than by drugs alone而不只是靠藥物. You meet regularly你會定期會面 with a trained person跟一位受過訓練的人; together你們一起 you look at thoughts, feelings, and what happened to you檢視想法、感受，還有發生在你身上的事. There are many named kinds有很多不同名稱的類型 (some short and practical有些短又實際, some longer and about the whole life story有些比較長、談的是整個人生故事), but the shared idea不過共同的概念 is healing through conversation and attention是透過談話和關注來療癒.
Though actually, people say “therapy” for almost any helping talk, including a warm chat. Real psychotherapy has a method and a frame: time, privacy, a trained .
Though actually不過事實上, people say "therapy"人們會說「therapy」 for almost any helping talk來指幾乎任何有幫助的談話, including a warm chat甚至包括一場溫暖的聊天. Real psychotherapy真正的心理治療 has a method and a frame有一套方法和架構: time, privacy, a trained clinician時間、隱私，還有一位受過訓練的臨床人員.
It can sit beside medicine; it does not have to replace it. It is not hypnosis, and it is not a lecture.
It可以 can sit beside medicine跟藥物並存; it does not have to replace it不必取代藥物. It is not它不是 hypnosis催眠, and it is not它也不是 a lecture一場說教.
組成From psycho- + therapy. Psycho- is “mind”; therapy is “treatment.”
同家族的字
- psychotherapistthe person who gives this talking treatment
- therapythe treatment piece
- psychologyshares psycho-, “mind”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
psychotherapynoun/ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/
- 1
The treatment of people diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders using dialogue and a variety of psychological techniques.
- In the future, he says, a focus on the hate circuit may open new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target this and other specific circuits in the brain.
- Literally hundreds of studies have shown that on average psychotherapy works as well for these conditions as do medications.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。