therapy

Definition

  • noun: the treatment of physical or mental illnesses
  • noun: 'therapeutic' treatment especially of bodily, mental, or behavioral disorder
  • synonyms: medicaid, medicare, x ray

Examples

  • advances in the science of 'gene therapy'

  • He is undergoing cancer 'therapy'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) away very much as I found him, after he'd missed three appointments. - If you didn't kill him, then who did, sir? - Who can say? Best thing for him, really. His therapy was going nowhere. His dress, make-up... - Raspail was a transvestite? - In life? Oh, no. Garden-variety manic-depressive. (..)
    1991 The Silence of the Lambs
  • (..) about a World Series. A baseball game? You know. and l've never been to a baseball game and... ...l think l'd like to see one. That would be good therapy. too. wouldn't it. Miss Ratched? l thought we'd decided that issue. l don't think so. because. l mean... ...we discussed that yesterday... (..)
    1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • (..) ...Billy doesn't teel like talking... ...l mean. why are you pressing him? Why can't we go on to some new business? The business ot this meeting. Mr. Cheswick... ...is therapy. You know. l don't understand this. Miss Ratched... ...because l don't.... Mr. McMurphy.... He said something yesterday (..)
    1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest