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Definition: Psychiatry |
PsychiatryNoun1. The branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "psychiatry" was first used: 1846. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Note that psychiatry is practiced by psychiatrists, psychology by psychologists. Psychiatrists have medical training, while psychologists have extensive training in therapy and psychological testing.
For a long period of history, neurology and psychiatry were a single discipline, and following their division the steady advance in understanding of the basic functioning of neurons and the brain is bringing areas of the two disciplines back together.
Psychiatry was at first a pragmatic discipline that was part of general medicine, combining medicine and practical psychology. The work of Emil Kraepelin laid the foundations of scientific psychiatry, but was derailed by the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud. For many years, Freudian theories dominated psychiatric thinking.
The discovery of lithium carbonate as a treatment for bipolar disorder, followed by the development of fields such as molecular biology and tools such as brain imaging has led to psychiatry re-discovering its origins in physical and observational medicine without losing sight of its humane dimension.
See also:
Mind vs. brain
Psychiatric illnesses were for some time characterised as disorders of function of the mind rather than the brain, although the distinction is not always obvious. In the current state of knowledge this distinction does not hold true, as most psychiatric conditions have their correlates in term of brain abnormality. Anti-psychiatry
Unlike most other areas of medicine, there is a politicised anti-psychiatry movement that opposes the practices of, and in some cases the existence of, psychiatry. Some opponents of psychiatry state that selective financing by large multinational drug companies of both high ranking professional psychiatrists, research and educational material has lead the practice of psychiatry to be subversively, and in some cases inhumanely misled.Famous psychiatrists
Psychiatrists in fiction
Links moved from medicine, to be sorted and explained:
Bipolar disorder -- Depression -- Mental Retardation -- Schizophrenia -- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -- More
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Psychiatry."
Synonyms: PsychiatrySynonyms: psychological medicine (n), psychopathology (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Psychiatry |
| English words defined with "psychiatry": anorexia nervosa ♦ disturbance ♦ folie ♦ head-shrinker ♦ mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental hygiene ♦ Psychiatria, psychiatric, psychiatrical, psychiatrist, psychological disorder, psychotherapeutics, psychotherapy ♦ repress ♦ shrink, suppress ♦ ununderstood. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "psychiatry": Behavioral Disciplines and Activities ♦ Community Psychiatry ♦ Forensic Psychiatry ♦ Geriatric Psychiatry, gifted child ♦ Mental Health Associations, Military Psychiatry ♦ NURSE, PRIVATE DUTY, nurse, specia. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur. (Clue; writing credit: Jonathan Lynn.) Psychiatry has to do with the insane, and we have nothing to do with the insane whatsoever. (Introduction to Scientology; writing credit: James Andrew Hall; H.G. Wells) I'm sure everyone here is fascinated to hear more pop psychiatry from number fifty-four in his class at Columbia Med. (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Psychiatry in Russia (1955) | |
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Gordon Willard Allport | Love--incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent--is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release. |
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Health | Acta Psychiatry Scandanavia. (references) | |
The handbook of child and adolescent psychiatry. (references) | ||
Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Russia | Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports of the use of psychiatry in "deprogramming" victims of "totalitarian sects." Members of individual minority religions continued to encounter prejudice and societal discrimination, and in some cases violence. (references) |
Economic History | Bahrain | Specialist clinics have been designed for obstetrics and gynecology, infertility, obesity, internal medicine, gastroenterology and diabetology, physical medicine and sports medicine, plastic and reconstructive surgery, general surgery, orthopedics, pediatrics, dentistry, ophthalmology, ear-nose-throat and psychiatry. (references) |
Human Rights | Ukraine | According to the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association, the Health Care Ministry has not always cooperated with human rights groups attempting to monitor abuse of psychiatry. (references) |
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| "Psychiatry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Psychiatry" is used about 169 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 169 | 23,972 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "psychiatry": Adolescent Psychiatry ♦ Biological Psychiatry ♦ Child Psychiatry ♦ Community Psychiatry ♦ Forensic Psychiatry ♦ Geriatric Psychiatry ♦ Holistic psychiatry ♦ Military Psychiatry ♦ Preventive Psychiatry. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "psychiatry": anti-psychiatry. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "psychiatry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | psikiatri (alienism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | طب النفس, الطب العقلي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | психиатрия (alienism, mental hospital). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 精神病学 (Psychiatric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | psychiatrie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | psykiatri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | psychiatrie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | psikiatrio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پزشکی روانی , طب روحی , روانپزشکی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | psykiatria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | psychiatrie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Psychiatrie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψυχιατρική. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pszichiátria (alienism), elmeorvostan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ilmu penyakit jiwa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | síciatracht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | psichiatria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 精神科 , 精神医学 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいし"か, せいし"いがく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 과. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lheeys aigney. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ychiatrypsay psiquiatria (alienism). (various references) psihiatrie. (various references) психиатрия (alienism). (various references) psihijatrija. (various references) psiquiatría (alienism). (various references) psykiatri. (various references) psikiyatri, akıl hastalıkları bilim dalı. (various references) психіатрія (alienism). (various references) bệnh học tâm thần. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | psykhe-. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "psychiatry": neuropsychiatry, orthopsychiatry. (additional references) | |
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"Psychiatry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phychiatry, pshychiatry, psychiaatry, psychiat, psychiatra, Psychiatrie, psychitry. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "psychiatry" (pronounced sīkī"utrē or sikī"utrē) |
| 4 | -u t r ē | asymmetry, banditry, basketry, bigotry, cabinetry, circuitry, dissymmetry, gadgetry, geometry, helotry, idolatry, optometry, poetry, punditry, puppetry, rocketry, spectrometry, summitry, symmetry, telemetry, toiletry, zealotry. |
| 3 | -t r ē | ancestry, artistry, baptistery, biochemistry, carpentry, chemistry, complementary, country, dentistry, elementary, entry, forestry, gallantry, gantry, gentry, geochemistry, industry, infantry, Maestri, ministry, mitre, pageantry, palmistry, paltry, pantry, pastry, peasantry, pedantry, pleasantry, poultry, reentry, registry, sentry, sultry, tapestry, wintry. |
| 4 | -u t r ē | asymmetry, banditry, basketry, bigotry, cabinetry, circuitry, dissymmetry, gadgetry, geometry, helotry, idolatry, optometry, poetry, punditry, puppetry, rocketry, spectrometry, summitry, symmetry, telemetry, toiletry, zealotry. |
| 3 | -t r ē | ancestry, artistry, baptistery, biochemistry, carpentry, chemistry, complementary, country, dentistry, elementary, entry, forestry, gallantry, gantry, gentry, geochemistry, industry, infantry, Maestri, ministry, mitre, pageantry, palmistry, paltry, pantry, pastry, peasantry, pedantry, pleasantry, poultry, reentry, registry, sentry, sultry, tapestry, wintry. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-p-r-s-t-y-y" | |
-3 letters: charity, christy, harpist, piscary, satyric, spathic, starchy. | |
-4 letters: airths, atypic, capris, chairs, charts, chirps, chirpy, crispy, crista, crypts, haptic, parish, parity, pastry, patchy, phasic, phatic, physic, piracy, pitchy, rachis, racist, raphis, rapist, scarph, script, scyphi, sharpy, shirty, starch, stripy, tapirs, thrips, thyrsi, trashy, triacs, yachts, yirths. | |
-5 letters: airth, airts, aitch, aphis, apish, artsy. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-p-r-s-t-y-y" | |
+5 letters: astrophysically, neuropsychiatry, orthopsychiatry, psychiatrically, saprophytically. | |
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