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C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Ready for C2 Proficiency Workbook, Macmillan

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.

BEAR

DATE

THERAPY

DETRIMENT

SPEAK

AUGUR

REFUTE

WIT

For millions today, psychotherapy is as (0) ___ a part of their lives as eating, working and sleeping. Without it, the struggle to get through modern life would be (1) ___ harder. In fact, therapy has a rich pedigree (2) ___ the ordeals of the modern world by millennia. Throughout history, people have been aware of the (3) ___ power of speaking and, crucially, being listened to, not to mention the (4) ___ effects of bottling up emotions and leaving painful thoughts and experiences (5) ___ . Both the Ancient Egyptians and Greeks wrote of healing through words. In the 9th century, Persian physician and psychologist Rhazes is believed to have (6) ___ the world's first theoretically based psychotherapy. Western psychotherapy took shape in the late 1800s, around the time Sigmund Freud was developing his 'talking cure' in Vienna. While Freud's transformative impact on psychotherapy is (7) ___ , many experts consider Viennese physician Franz Mesmer, who pioneered the practice of hypnotherapy in the 1700s (and (8) ___ gave us the word mesmerise) to have been the true Father of Western Psychotherapy.

The mesmerizing origins of psychotherapy

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