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psychiatry Definition

psy·chia·try (sī kīə trē, si-)

noun

the branch of medicine concerned with the study, treatment, and prevention of disorders of the mind, including psychoses and neuroses, emotional maladjustments, etc.

Etymology: ModL: see psycho- & -iatry

psychiatry Synonyms

psychiatry

n.

psychiatry Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • include: Students work in a variety of areas, including psychiatry.
  • do: He started working in the University Department there and was asked to do forensic psychiatry for 6 months.

Adjective modifier

  • forensic: Here he offers his view of the value of psychoanalysis to clinical practice in forensic psychiatry.
  • adolescent: My training in child and adolescent psychiatry proved no less confusing, however.
  • perinatal: Every health authority should identify a consultant with a special interest in perinatal psychiatry.
  • acute: Prior to her university post, she worked as a social worker in acute psychiatry in Hampshire.
  • biological: Real science takes on the myths of biological psychiatry.
  • general: He is the joint editor of a major British textbook on general adult psychiatry which was published in 1998.

Modifies a noun

  • department: The murder trail leads to the college psychiatry department 's experiments.
  • teaching: We then reviewed our child psychiatry teaching in the light of this.
  • service: Every health authority in the UK has an old age psychiatry service.
  • post: Consultants in established liaison psychiatry posts have often experienced problems identical to those which you may be facing.
  • today: As with so much in psychiatry today the jury's still out on that one.
  • team: Clinicians in other specialties should have ready access to the expertise of a liaison psychiatry team.

Noun used with modifier

  • liaison: Indeed, no liaison psychiatry consultant should be expected to provide a service without junior medical staff.
  • inpatient: What do we know about medication errors in inpatient psychiatry?
  • adult: He is the joint editor of a major British textbook on general adult psychiatry which was published in 1998.
  • age: Why do patients fall on old age psychiatry wards?
  • child: For some, their journey had started in child psychiatry.
  • community: She has previously worked in teaching, in primary care mental health research and in community psychiatry.
psychiatry Quotes

   Biography is now more or less a branch of psychiatry.

—Aslet, CliveWilliam