1. DIRECTIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY: I. REASSURANCE.
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Andrews, Jean Stewart
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PSYCHOTHERAPY , *CLINICAL psychology , *PSYCHIATRY , *THERAPEUTICS , *PHYSICIANS , *COMMON sense - Abstract
This article focuses on directive psychotherapy. In terms of psychotherapy, reassurance means to restore confidence in another by assuring him of certain facts which were previously uncertain or unknown to him. The art of reassurance has been so extensively practiced by physicians, clergymen, teachers, friends and relatives that it hardly deserves designation as a special technique in guidance unless it is so skillfully utilized as to go beyond ordinary common sense. Historically, reassurance is one of the oldest psychotherapeutic methods, since men have attempted to reassure each other since time immemorial.
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- 1945
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