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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, psychotherapy first meant " hypnotherapy " instead of " psychotherapy ".

The original meaning, " the treatment of disease by ‘ psychic ’ hypnotic methods ", was first recorded in 1853 as " Psychotherapeia, or the remedial influence of mind ".

The modern meaning, " the treatment of disorders of the mind or personality by psychological or psychophysiological methods ", was first used in 1892 by Frederik van Eeden translating " Suggestive Psycho-therapy " for his French " Psychothérapie Suggestive ".

Van Eeden credited borrowing this term from Daniel Hack Tuke and noted, " Psycho-therapy ... had the misfortune to be taken in tow by hypnotism.