talking cure
Therapy through dialogue
Talking cure is an informal term for psychotherapy, especially psychoanalysis—treatment through conversation rather than medication or physical intervention.
The phrase emphasizes that the therapeutic mechanism is speech itself: articulating problems, memories, and feelings to a trained listener.
She's been in the talking cure for years.
- psychoanalysisTreatment via unconscious exploration
- FreudFounder of psychoanalysis
- couchUpholstered seating furniture
- lying downIn horizontal position
- therapyCurative mental treatment
on the couch · analyst · unconscious · confession · catharsis · words · healing · session · neurosis · mental health · dreams · childhood memories · listening · breakthrough · transference · insight · Vienna · trauma
- psychoanalysisFreud, id, ego, unconscious, Sigmund Freud
- Psychology HistoryFreud, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Jung, William James
talking curepharmacotherapy
Treatment using pharmaceutical agents
medication · drug therapy · psychopharmacology · electroconvulsive therapy · psychiatric medication
talking cureaversion therapy
Treatment pairing unwanted behavior with discomfort
silence · institutionalization · behavior modification · behaviorism · behavioral conditioning
talk, talks, talked, talker, talkers, talkative, cure, cures, cured