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Mental hygiene   /mˈɛntəl hˈaɪdʒˌin/   Listen
Mental hygiene

noun
1.
The branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods.  Synonyms: psychotherapeutics, psychotherapy.





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"Mental hygiene" Quotes from Famous Books



... physical truths underlying religion and the various branches of medical science. Daily papers and magazines are giving a great deal of space to this experiment in "psychotherapy," which is discussed in the chapter on Mental Hygiene. Schools and chairs in preventive hygiene would soon give to the medical profession a point of view that would welcome every new truth, such as the alliance of religion and medicine, and estimate its full ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen
... of recreation; purification of milk and how to obtain pure milk; transmission of diseases by insects and animals; how life begins; prenatal and postnatal care and preschool care; duties of the public health nurse; and social, oral and mental hygiene. ...
— History of the Division of Medical Sciences • Sami Khalaf Hamarneh


Words linked to "Mental hygiene" :   Jungian psychology, Freudian psychology, psychotherapy, psychological medicine, clinical psychology, psychiatry, psychopathology


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