Definition of Psychiatry

1. Noun. The branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.


Definition of Psychiatry

1. Noun. (medicine) The branch of medicine that subjectively diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioural conditions. ¹

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Definition of Psychiatry

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychiatry

psychiatria
psychiatric
psychiatric condition
psychiatric conditions
psychiatric hospital
psychiatrical
psychiatrically
psychiatries
psychiatrist
psychiatrists
psychiatrization
psychiatrize
psychiatrized
psychiatrizes
psychiatrizing
psychiatry (current term)
psychic
psychic communication
psychic energy
psychic phenomena
psychic phenomenon
psychic trauma
psychical
psychical communication
psychically
psychics
psychid
psychids
psyching
psyching out

Literary usage of Psychiatry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"psychiatry, that branch of medicine which deals with diseases of the mind. ... During the asylum period in the history of psychiatry very little was ..."

2. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1917)
"psychiatry, including as one of its schools psychoanalysis, ... The essential contribution of psychiatry, understanding of human motivation, ..."

3. Register by University of California, Berkeley, California, University (1922)
"psychiatry, in its general and fundamental aspects will be ... In the first half of the fourth year, the course in psychiatry •will be completed. ..."

4. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1906)
"By STEWART PATON, MD, Associate in psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University; Director of the Laboratory, Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. ..."

5. The Science, Treatment, and Prevention of Antisocial Behaviorsby Diana H. Fishbein by Diana H. Fishbein (2000)
"Archives of General psychiatry, 54, 1081-1088. Coccaro, EF, Kavoussi, RJ, ... Journal of Clinical psychiatry, 55, 440-444. Cohn, ES & White, SO (1986). ..."

6. Modern Theories of Criminality by Constancio Bernaldo de Quirós, Alfonso de Salvio (1911)
"psychiatry, more than any other science, can be called a product of our century. ... Although late in coming, psychiatry met with a rapid development. ..."

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