noun
suggestive therapy
A therapeutic approach that uses suggestion to influence a patient's mental or physical state; often associated with hypnosis or placebo effects.
暗示療法は、患者の潜在意識に働きかける治療法です。
Suggestive therapy is a treatment method that works on the patient's subconscious.
催眠療法 specifically uses hypnosis, while 暗示療法 is a broader term that includes any suggestion-based technique, not necessarily involving a trance state.
Compound of 暗示 (suggestion) and 療法 (therapy). The term is a modern medical coinage, likely from the early 20th century, paralleling Western concepts of suggestive therapeutics.