Therapy (in Greek: θεραπεία) or treatment is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis. Some therapeutic methodologies from Western medicine, Eastern medicine (especially traditional Chinese medicine), and alternative health care include: acupuncture adventure therapy agoratherapy aromatherapy art therapy colour therapy crystal healing Dianetics diversional therapy hyperbaric oxy ...

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THERAPY: treatment and care of someone to combat disease, injury, or mental disorder.

(See also: Therapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

THERAPY

treatment and care of someone to combat disease, injury, or mental disorder.

(See also: THERAPY, Alternative Health, Healing, Body Mind and Soul)

Dance therapy, or Dance movement therapy (sometimes referred to as choreotherapy), is the psychotherapeutic use of movement (and dance) for emotional, cognitive, social, behavioural and physical conditions. It is a special form of creative therapy. Dance therapy is based on the premise that the body and mind are interrelated. Mental and emotional problems can result in muscle tension and constrained movement patterns compounding the original condition. Conversely, the state of the body can affect mental and ...

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Primal therapy is a trauma-based psychotherapy developed and popularized by Arthur Janov, Ph.D. During therapy the patient is encouraged to cry, scream, and beat objects to express childhood, perinatal and prenatal feelings. Janov claimed that in primal therapy patients would find their real needs and feelings after experiencing all their accumulated pain. The absence of peer-reviewed outcome studies to substantiate this claim led to the therapy falling out of favor in academic and psychotherapeutic circles. Also, the ideas and theori ...

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Play Therapy is defined by the Association for Play Therapy as "the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained play therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development." A lay definition might be "a form of counseling that uses play to communicate with and render assistance, espe ...

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Music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program. In other words, music therapy is the use of music by a trained professional to achieve therapeutic goals. Goal areas may include, but are not limited to, motor skills, social/interpersonal development, cognitive dev ...

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• Music therapy - Music therapy in the United States
• Music therapy - Music therapy in the United Kingdom

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Gestalt therapy is a form of psychotherapy, based on the experiential ideal of "here and now," and relationships with others and the world. Drawing on the ideas of humanistic psychology, the school of Gestalt therapy was co-founded by Fritz Perls, Laura Perls and Paul Goodman in the 1940s-1950s. It is related to but not identical to Gestalt psychology and the Gestalt psychology-based Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy of Hans-Juergen Walter. Gestalt therapy - General description. The school of Gestalt therap ...

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• Gestalt therapy - General description
• Gestalt therapy - Principal influences
• Gestalt therapy - Being human
• Gestalt therapy - The human being seen as a whole
• Gestalt therapy - Formation of Gestalt
• Gestalt therapy - Contact boundaries
• Gestalt therapy - Organismic self-regulation
• Gestalt therapy - Psychotherapeutic bases
• Gestalt therapy - Actuality
• Gestalt therapy - Attention
• Gestalt therapy - Responsibility
• Gestalt therapy - Wider influence of Gestalt therapy on other schools
• Gestalt therapy - Moral injunctions of Gestalt therapy
• Gestalt therapy - Suggested sections

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Manual Therapy encompasses the diagnosis and treatment of the ailments of various etiologies through hands-on intervention. Manual Therapy is practiced by people within various health care professions, including Physiotherapists, Physical Therapists, Massage Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Chiropractors, Osteopaths, Physiatrists and more. Manual Assessment uses a variety hands on tests to determine which structure may be responsible for the pain or dysfunction being assessed. Treatment includes all the means of hands on work and

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Megavitamin therapy uses large amounts of vitamins, often several times greater than the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) to treat many types of diseases and to extend life. It is often used in conjunction with orthomolecular medicine. Effects of the therapy are controversial. It was advocated, though not developed by chemist Linus Pauling in the 1960's and works under the principle that administration of large doses of vitamins to combat conditions considered wholly or in part due to their deficiency. Adminstration of large doses of Vitamin A a ...

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Art therapy is a type of psychotherapy that uses art-making and creativity to increase emotional well-being. Art therapy combines traditional psychotherapeutic theories and techniques with specialized knowledge about the psychological aspects of the creative process, especially the affective properties of different art materials. As a mental health profession, art therapy is employed in many different clinical settings with many different types of patients. Art therapy is present in non-clinical settings as well, such as in art studios a ...

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• Art therapy - History
• Art therapy - Theories and Techniques
• Art therapy - Art Therapy Assessments and Research
• Art therapy - Clinical Settings and Patient Populations
• Art therapy - Non-Clinical Settings
• Art therapy - Professional Organizations

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Cognitive therapy or cognitive behavior therapy is a kind of psychotherapy used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, phobias, and other forms of mental disorder. It involves recognising unhelpful patterns of thinking and reacting then modifying or replace these with more realistic or helpful ones. Its practitioners hold that typically clinical depression is associated with (although not necessarily caused by) negatively biased thinking and irrational thoughts. Cognitive therapy is often used in conjunction with mood s ...

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• Cognitive therapy - The basics
• Cognitive therapy - Thoughts as the cause of emotions
• Cognitive therapy - Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Cognitive therapy - Depression
• Cognitive therapy - The four column technique
• Cognitive therapy - Treating depression with CBA

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Vision therapy, also known as visual therapy or visual training, is a broadly-defined set of treatment programs related to the improvement of visual health and comfort. Probably, the best known form of vision therapy is orthoptics which treats binocular vision disorders such as amblyopia, strabismus, and double vision or diplopia. Other problems treated with vision therapy include difficulties of visual attention and concentration, which are said to manifest as an inability to sustain focus or to shift focus from one are ...

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• Vision therapy - History
• Vision therapy - Scientific support for vision therapy
• Vision therapy - Skepticism
• Vision therapy - See Also

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Physical therapy (also known as physiotherapy) is a health profession concerned with the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and disability through physical means. It is based upon principles of medical science, and is generally held to be within the sphere of conventional (rather than alternative) medicine. Physiotherapy is practiced by physiotherapists (also known as physical therapists, e.g. in the United States), though aspects may also be practiced under supervised delegation by physiotherapy assi ...

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• Physical therapy - Scope of practice
• Physical therapy - History of physiotherapy
• Physical therapy - Assessment
• Physical therapy - Treatment
• Physical therapy - Musculoskeletal physiotherapy
• Physical therapy - Cardiopulmonary physiotherapy
• Physical therapy - Neurological physiotherapy
• Physical therapy - Physiotherapy education
• Physical therapy - Qualifications in the United States

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Chelation therapy is a process involving the use of chelating agents such as EDTA to remove heavy metals from the body. It has uses in both conventional and alternative medicine. Chelation therapy - Discovery in medicine. Chelating agents were introduced into medicine as a result of the use of poison gas in World War I. The first widely used chelating agent was called British Anti-Lewisite, or BAL, a name given to dimercaprol. It is an organic compound related to the mercaptans, which are a class of sulfur- ...

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• Chelation therapy - Discovery in medicine
• Chelation therapy - Uses in conventional medicine
• Chelation therapy - Uses in alternative medicine
• Chelation therapy - Calcium chelation therapy

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Aversion therapy is a form of psychiatric treatment in which the patient is exposed to a stimulus while simultaneously being hurt or made ill. This conditioning causes the patient to associate the stimulus with unpleasant sensations. Aversion therapy can take many forms, a few examples being: Placing unpleasant-tasting chemicals on the nails to discourage nail-chewing, giving alcoholics drugs that make the intake of alcohol unpleasant, or simply scolding a child while they are doing wrong. Aversion therapy ...

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• Aversion therapy - Aversion therapy and gay men
• Aversion therapy - Popular culture

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Beyond Therapy is a comedic play by Christopher Durang that had a short run on Broadway in 1982, starring John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest. Its themes include New Yorkers' reliance on psychiatry, and the quest to find love and companionship. The plot concerns Prudence, a New York City yuppie who has just ended an affair with Stuart, her macho, abusive psychiatrist and has decided to search for a boyfriend in the personal ads. Through this, she meets Bruce, who is kind and understanding... and also is a bisexual living with ...

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Light therapy or phototherapy consists of exposure to specific wavelengths of light using lasers, LEDs, fluorescent lamps, or very bright, full-spectrum light, for a prescribed amount of time. It has proven effective in treating Acne vulgaris, seasonal affective disorder (SAD), and for some people it has ameliorated delayed sleep phase syndrome. Proponents claim demonstrable benefits for skin conditions such as psoriasis, as well as more controversially, some degree of "skin rejuvenation". Light therapy - Acne vul ...

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• Light therapy - Acne vulgaris
• Light therapy - Neonatal jaundice
• Light therapy - Seasonal affective disorder
• Light therapy - Delayed sleep phase syndrome
• Light therapy - Psoriasis
• Light therapy - Tanning
• Light therapy - 'Antiaging'
• Light therapy - Safety of phototherapy

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Manipulative therapy involves use of body work or massage therapy and other physical manipulation of the body for healing, such as osteopathy, and chiropractic. A survey released in May 2004 by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine focused on who used complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), what was used, and why it was used in the United States by adults age 18 years and over during 2002. According to this recent survey, manipulative therapy was the 3rd most commonly used NCCAM classification of ...

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• Manipulative therapy - Further reading

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Drama therapy is a health and human services profession that seeks to facilitate physical integration and personal growth for individuals, couples, families, and various groups through the use of theatrical and dramatic processes. Drama therapists work in a wide variety of settings, including hospitals, schools, mental centers, prisons, and businesses. Using role-play, theater games, mime, puppetry, and other improvisational techniques, drama therapists help the client to tell his or her story in order to: Solve a ...

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• Drama therapy - Also see

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