directive therapy

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directive therapy

Etymology: L, diregere, to direct, therapeia, treatment

a psychotherapeutic approach in which the psychotherapist directs the course of therapy by intervening to ask questions and offer interpretations. Compare nondirective therapy. See also psychoanalysis.

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