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MENTAL HYGIENE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does mental hygiene mean?

• MENTAL HYGIENE (noun)
The noun MENTAL HYGIENE has 1 sense:

1. the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods

Familiarity information: MENTAL HYGIENE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MENTAL HYGIENE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

mental hygiene; psychotherapeutics; psychotherapy

Hypernyms ("mental hygiene" is a kind of...):

psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental hygiene"):

clinical psychology (the branch of psychology concerned with the treatment of abnormal mentation and behavior)

Freudian psychology (the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud)

Jungian psychology (the psychological theories of Carl Jung)

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