mental hygiene

What does mental hygiene mean?

mental hygiene means "the branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods".

What is another word for mental hygiene?

Close synonyms include psychotherapy, psychotherapeutics. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mental hygiene a common word?

mental hygiene is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mental hygiene come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.