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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The psychiatric study, treatment, and prevention of emotional and behavioral problems, especially of those that arise during early development.
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- noun psychiatry branch of
psychiatry concerned with theprevention ofmental illness , especially in theyoung
Etymologies
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ortho- + psychiatry
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