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alternative psychotherapy

alternative psychotherapy

any treatment approach not considered to be within the mainstream of psychotherapy. For example, the use of psychedelic therapy in the 1950s and 1960s was considered alternative. Primal therapy and Reichian analysis are also considered alternative approaches by most therapists.

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