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US
/saɪˈkaɪətɹi, sɪˈkaɪətɹi/
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[ UK /saɪkˈaɪətɹi/ ]
[ UK /saɪkˈaɪətɹi/ ]
NOUN
- the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
How To Use psychiatry In A Sentence
- 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
- Interestingly, antipsychiatry and psychiatry share the same goal of expanding the definition of people with whatever it is they claim to represent. DJ Jaffe: Psychiatry vs. Antipsychiatry: Call to action
- An organization that accepts the antipsychiatry mantra that we have medicalized everything, and their devotion to confronting abuse, but rejects their position that mental illness does not exist. DJ Jaffe: Psychiatry vs. Antipsychiatry: Call to action
- Organized psychiatry must publicly articulate our vision, positions and commitment to the amelioration of human misery.
- They were formally greeted by Dr. Henry A. Murray, director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic, and Dr. Richard S. Lyman, a professor of neuropsychiatry at Duke University. A Covert Affair
- 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. Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician
- In 1931 there were no medications to treat mental illness (lobotomies came into vogue in 1935, for example) and psychiatry was divided between those doctors treating state hospital patients (many of whom had paresis or were schizophrenic/bipolar) who were considered “organic” and those who were more psychoanalytic, mostly in big cities. The Volokh Conspiracy » Jerome Frank on Oliver Wendell Holmes:
- It has implications for addiction, attention disorders and stress-related memory loss, said Dr. Don Cooper, assistant professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study conducted in mice. Tew's Day!
- Objective To realize characteristics of murder case by forensic psychiatry expertise.
- They demonstrate psychiatry's significant role in the production of knowledge about colonized populations, and shed new light on the psychological dimensions of diverse colonial societies.