Therapy

The treatment of disease or some physical, mental, or behavioural condition or ailment by a given approach or various approaches, involving the management and care of a patient or client for the purpose of remediating or at least moderating a diagnosed disorder.

Psychotherapy is a set of psychological interventions designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems and to improve the quality of patients’ or clients’ lives.

(see also: efficacy, experimental group, scientific approach, pseudo-science, systematic evidence, evolution, anecdotal evidence, (conceptual) models, operational definition, critical thinking, theory (scientific) , falsifiability, testability).