Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The treatment of mental diseases.
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- noun medicine The branch of
medicine that subjectivelydiagnoses , treats, and studies mental illness andbehavioural conditions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
Etymologies
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Examples
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Up next, my interview with a scientologist whose organization investigates what they call psychiatry -- psychiatric abuses.
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Up next, my interview with a scientologist whose organization investigates what they call psychiatry -- psychiatric abuses.
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And this is what got Rush into what we know as psychiatry, the idea of treating these people as organically ill, as well as, you know, psychologically ill.
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Just as in the rest of medicine -- cardiology, endocrinology, neurology, etc., the field of psychiatry is ever changing and our knowledge base is rapidly expanding.
Rosalie Greenberg: Psychiatry and the Media -- a Strange and Strained Relationship Rosalie Greenberg 2010
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Antipsychiatric personality disorder: persons who believe and vehemently argue that modern psychiatry is all wrong and use very selective examination of evidence to support that view.
The COA Club, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Just as in the rest of medicine -- cardiology, endocrinology, neurology, etc., the field of psychiatry is ever changing and our knowledge base is rapidly expanding.
Rosalie Greenberg: Psychiatry and the Media -- a Strange and Strained Relationship Rosalie Greenberg 2010
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Just as in the rest of medicine -- cardiology, endocrinology, neurology, etc., the field of psychiatry is ever changing and our knowledge base is rapidly expanding.
Rosalie Greenberg: Psychiatry and the Media -- a Strange and Strained Relationship Rosalie Greenberg 2010
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Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of clinical and school psychologists, teachers, school counselors and school social workers, fellows in psychiatry, and psychology graduate students
Practicum Training 2010
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Just as in the rest of medicine -- cardiology, endocrinology, neurology, etc., the field of psychiatry is ever changing and our knowledge base is rapidly expanding.
Rosalie Greenberg: Psychiatry and the Media -- a Strange and Strained Relationship Rosalie Greenberg 2010
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He appears to have no understanding of the differences among subtypes of depression and makes claims that any physician with a halfway decent background in psychiatry would find absurd.
An Evolutionary Model of Depression, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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