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Welcome to Six Minute English, where we bring you a thoughtful topic and six items of vocabulary.
I'm Rob, and I'm Neil.
So, I was watching an old Woody Allen movie last night.
Okay, he's the anxious middle-aged guy from New York who talks about his problems all the time.
That's the one.
He was paying for psychoanalysis.
And that's a type of talk therapy that was popular in the 1970s.
Do you know what therapy means, Rob?
Yes, therapy means a type of treatment for a problem or illness.
And talk therapy is a treatment for psychological problems,
which means problems of the mind, in case he was struggling with another long Greek word, Neil.
Train therapists work with you on ways to understand your thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
Hey, Rob, I'm an expert on long Greek words.
Psychology is the noun by the way,
and the prefix psycho in front of any word means to do with the mind.
For example, the horror movie psycho, which is all about the disturbed mind of the main character, Norman Bates.
Where disturbed means not thinking or behaving in a normal way, because you have psychological problems.
Norman Bates would have found talk therapy helpful, don't you think?