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The word Psychotherapy comes from the Ancient Greek words psychē, meaning breath, spirit, or soul and therapeia or therapeuein, to nurse or cure. It is defined as “the relief of distress or disability in one person by another, using an approach based on a particular theory or paradigm, and that the agent performing the therapy has had some form of training in delivering this” (Jerome, 1988). It is these latter two points which distinguish psychotherapy from most other forms of counseling. [read post]