psychomedicine

English

Etymology

psycho- +‎ medicine

Noun

psychomedicine (uncountable)

1. (rare) Any form of medical treatment that involves a psychosomatic component, from primitive shamanistic treatments to the use of placebos.
   • 1988, Sarat Chandra Roy (Rai Bahadur), Man in India (volume 68, page 295)

     The skull, nails and hairs are used in psychomedicine. The breast milk is used to prevent the eye ailments and to expell the spine or other particle from the body. The urine is also given in colic pain.

2. The use of psychoactive drugs.
   • 1988, Yūichirō Nagatomi, Masayoshi Ohira's Proposal: To Evolve the Global Society, page 153:

     It is also called the age of new human sciences and life sciences including human biology, anthropology, cultural-anthropology, psychology and psychomedicine.

Related terms

• psychomedical