APA Dictionary of Psychology
prestige suggestion
- a message whose persuasiveness derives from its delivery by or attribution to a person of recognized status.
- a method of supportive, symptomatic treatment that relies on the prestige of the therapist in the eyes of the patient to reduce or eliminate symptoms. The so-called omnipotent therapist may be able to abolish undesirable symptoms, at least temporarily, by suggestion.
Updated on 04/19/2018
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