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Psychiatry definition

sĭ-kīə-trē, sī-
Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that deals with mental and emotional disorders.

An example of psychiatry is a professional who studies people with severe paranoia.

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The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders.
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The branch of medicine concerned with the study, treatment, and prevention of disorders of the mind, including psychoses and neuroses, emotional maladjustments, etc.
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The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders.
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The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders.
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(medicine) The branch of medicine that subjectively diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioural conditions.
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Noun

Singular:
psychiatry
Plural:
psychiatries

Origin of psychiatry

  • From psych- +"Ž -iatry.

    From Wiktionary

Psychiatry Sentence Examples

  • What do we know about medication errors in inpatient psychiatry?

  • In the same article, University of Michigan psychiatry professor Kirk Brower, who has studied "the interplay of alcohol and sleep in adults," stressed that "The finding does not mean there's a cause-and-effect relationship."

  • My training in child and adolescent psychiatry proved no less confusing, however.

  • According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, up to one third of American children and adolescents diagnosed with depression develop early onset bipolar disorder.

  • Subjects covered include anesthesia, dentistry, health sciences, healthcare, life sciences, medicine, nursing, psychiatry and public health.

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