orthopsychiatryn.
/ˌɔːθə(ʊ)sʌɪˈkʌɪətri/, /ˌɔːθə(ʊ)səˈkʌɪətri/, U.S. /ˈˌɔrθoʊsəˈkaɪətri/, /ˈˌɔrθoʊˌsaɪˈkaɪətri/ A school or movement within psychiatry concerned with the development and prevention of mental illness, esp. in children and adolescents.
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neuropsychiatry1918
psychiatric social work1919
social psychiatry1924
child psychiatry1925
orthopsychiatry1929
phenomenology1930
transcultural psychiatry1958
1929 Science 29 Mar. xiv/1 Orthopsychiatry, the new psychiatry, recognizes no devils, but shifts away from these old ideas and principles to give its attention to the whole individual, mind and body.
1930 (title) American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. A journal of human behavior (American Orthopsychiatric Association).
1956 O. Pollak Integrating Sociol. & Psychoanal. Concepts iii. ix. 221 A field as energetic and imbued with the spirit of experimentation in practice as orthopsychiatry.
1971 E. M. Bower Orthopsychiatry & Educ. 17 (title) The challenge to education and orthopsychiatry.
1999 Trans. & Studies Coll. Physicians Philadelphia 21 49 The origins of orthopsychiatry? Child psychopharmacology at the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, 1881-1889.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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