Birmingham, United Kingdom

Hearing Therapy

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: medicine, health care
University website: www.aston.ac.uk
Hearing
Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds by detecting vibrations, changes in the pressure of the surrounding medium through time, through an organ such as the ear. The academic field concerned with hearing is auditory science.
Therapy
Therapy (often abbreviated tx, Tx, or Tx) is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis. In the medical field, it is usually synonymous with treatment (also abbreviated tx or Tx). Among psychologists and other mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, counselors, and clinical social workers, the term may refer specifically to psychotherapy (sometimes dubbed 'talking therapy'). The English word therapy comes via Latin therapīa from Greek: θεραπεία and literally means "curing" or "healing".
Hearing
I was all ear,
And took in strains that might create a soul
Under the ribs of death.
John Milton, Comus (1637), line 560.
Hearing
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act III, scene 2, line 78.
Hearing
The best speeches are those that hurt your mind, not your ear.
Fausto Cercignani in: Brian Morris, Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani, 2014, p. 25.
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