As nouns the difference between catharsis and therapy
is that catharsis is a release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy) while therapy is treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.
As a verb therapy is
to treat with a therapy.
catharsis
Noun
(catharses)
(drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).
Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.
A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.
(psychology) A therapeutic technique to relieve tension.
(medicine) Purging of the digestive system.
Related terms
* cathartic
Anagrams
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therapy
English
Noun
(therapies)
Treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.
Healing power or quality.
Hyponyms
* See also
Derived terms
* adjuvant therapy
* antitherapy
* apitherapy
* art therapy
* autotherapy
* autohemotherapy
* brachytherapy
* chemotherapy
* cobalt therapy
* conversion therapy
* cryotherapy
* ecotherapy
* electroconvulsive therapy
* electrotherapy
* gene therapy
* gestalt therapy
* heliotherapy
* hypnotherapy
* immunotherapy
* logotherapy
* magnotherapy
* monotherapy
* multidrug therapy
* music therapy
* neoadjuvant therapy
* oligotherapy
* oxygen therapy
* ozone therapy
* physical therapy
* physiotherapy
* primal therapy
* psychotherapy
* radiotherapy
* radiation therapy
* reparative therapy
* retail therapy
* running therapy
* serotherapy
* shock therapy
* systemic therapy
* teletherapy
* theotherapy
* thought field therapy
* timeline therapy
* vinotherapy
Related terms
* therapeutic
* therapeutical
* therapist
Verb
To treat with a therapy.
To undergo a therapy.
