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Definition of Psychiatry
1. Noun. The branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
Examples of category: Echolalia, Resistance, Paramnesia, Autism, Confabulation, Acting Out, Compensation, Conversion, Defence, Defence Mechanism, Defence Reaction, Defense, Defense Mechanism, Defense Reaction, Denial, Displacement, Idealisation, Idealization, Intellectualisation, Intellectualization, Isolation, Overcompensation, Projection, Rationalisation, Rationalization, Reaction Formation, Regression, Repression, Anorexia Nervosa, Disturbance, Folie, Mental Disorder, Mental Disturbance, Psychological Disorder, Anxiety, Anxiousness, Major Depressive Episode, Repress, Suppress, Analyse, Analyze, Psychoanalyse, Psychoanalyze, Confabulate, Expansive
Generic synonyms: Medical Specialty, Medicine
Specialized synonyms: Alienism, Mental Hygiene, Psychotherapeutics, Psychotherapy
Derivative terms: Psychiatric, Psychiatrical, Psychiatrist, Psychopathologic, Psychopathological
Definition of Psychiatry
1. Noun. (medicine) The branch of medicine that subjectively diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioural conditions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Psychiatry
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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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