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psychiatric, a. (n.)|-ɪˈætrɪk| [f. as prec. + -ic: cf. Gr. ιᾱ̓τρικ-ός of or pertaining to a healer or to medicine.] A. adj. Of or pertaining to psychiatry. Also, connected with or affected by mental illness that can be treated medically; psychiatric social work, social work designed to support and supplement psychiatric treatment; so psychiatric social worker.
1847tr. von Feuchtersleben's Med. Psychol. (Syd. Soc.) Ed. Pref., He turned his attention to the revival of the study of psychiatric medicine. 1890H. Ellis Criminal ii. 37 [Lombroso] initiated..a psychiatric museum. 1896Daily News 22 Sept. 5/2 The introduction of psychiatric institutions under State control. 1919M. C. Jarrett in Mental Hygiene Apr. 215 There is a misconception..that the psychiatric social worker has a different function from other social workers. Ibid. 219 The future social worker..will have included in her professional education some knowledge of all the different branches of social work—psychiatric social work, medical social work, family rehabilitation, child welfare, community service. 1940Hinsie & Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 13/1 Affectation... It is perhaps more commonly observed among those who are not, strictly speaking, psychiatric, though it may..appear prominently in hysteria. 1957Times 15 Oct. 14/5 Britain's first psychiatric prison, which is to be built at Grendon Underwood in Buckinghamshire, is expected to be ready for occupation in 1962. 1962N. E. Whitten in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 408/1 Cases such as the following have been given..by a white psychiatric social worker. 1965J. Pollitt Depression & its Treatment i. 6 It is rarely necessary for the patient to realise that evidence for a psychiatric reaction is being sought. 1971E. D. Smigel Handbk. Study of Social Probl. 12 Beginning in the 1920s psychiatric sociology has been a developing subdiscipline. 1976S. B. Guze (title) Criminality and psychiatric disorders. 1977E. Ambler Send no more Roses xi. 253 The book..may..be of some sociological interest to specialists, particularly in the field of psychiatric social work. B. n. psychiˈatrics (rarely -atric, -atrik). The theory or practice of psychiatry.
1847tr. von Feuchtersleben's Med. Psychol. (Syd. Soc.) 1 When we come to the study of psychiatrics proper—the doctrine of the diseases of the mind. 1861N. Syd. Soc. Year-bk. Med. & Surg. 179 On Psychiatrik in its Legal Relations. 1904Daily Chron. 9 Aug. 3/2 Psychology,..sociology, criminology, psychiatrics, have pronounced it guilty. So psychiˈatrical a.; psychiˈatrically adv.
1847tr. von Feuchtersleben's Med. Psychol. (Syd. Soc.) 287 There is in these words ethically and psychiatrically an important intimation of the dangerous weakness of man. 1884Scotsman 30 Aug., Both parties—the psychiatrical and the philanthropic. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 37 [They] work at the subject from the psychiatrical point of view. 1921‘M. B., Oxon’ Cosmic Anat. ix. 122 It is quite possible that psychiatrically Jung's deduction was right. 1965J. Pollitt Depression & its Treatment vi. 85 Out-patient treatment and short-stay admission is now widely practised for all psychiatrically ill patients. 1975Times 5 Aug. 2/8 The drugs would be administered only to people who had recovered from a period of depression and were psychiatrically well. |