Unfortunately this diagnosis is often used non-specifically; it also tends to promote a sense of therapeutic nihilism.

Scientific medicine was accused of being 'the worst evil of therapeutic nihilism', but it never looked back.

"There is a therapeutic nihilism," he said.

Therapeutic nihilism is a contention that curing people, or societies, of their ills by treatment is impossible.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

The phrase therapeutic nihilism is also included in a modern version of the Hippocratic Oath, traditionally taken by physicians upon graduation.

Finally, in the view of therapeutic nihilism, Binswanger let her leave the Kreuzlingen clinic, and she later died because of drug overdose.

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Lobotomy was one of a series of radical and invasive physical therapies developed in Europe at this time which signaled a break with a psychiatric culture of therapeutic nihilism that had prevailed since the late nineteenth-century.