psychiatricadj.

1847 B. G. Babington in H. E. Lloyd & B. G. Babington tr. E. von Feuchtersleben Princ. Med. Psychol. Ed. Pref., p. vi He turned his attention to the revival of the study of psychiatric medicine.

1896 Daily News 22 Sept. 5/2 The introduction of psychiatric institutions under State control.

1905 Lancet 8 July 113 The imperative call for attention by the unfortunate psychiatric patients in the hospitals.

1940 L. E. Hinsie & J. 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.

1965 J. Pollitt Depression & its Treatm. i. 6 It is rarely necessary for the patient to realise that evidence for a psychiatric reaction is being sought.

1987 USA Today 21 Oct. 3/2 He also was ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment.

1991 New Scientist 9 Mar. 43/1 The stress of war in the Gulf has already produced ‘a trickle’ of psychiatric casualties.

2004 New Woman May 108/1 It was while I was in the psychiatric hospital that I was finally diagnosed: I had manic depression.

1919 Mental Hygiene Apr. 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.

1977 E. 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.

1918 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 13 227 One cannot omit the War from any discussion, and here the psychiatric social worker may confidently look forward to a field of work.

1999 H. Freeman Cent. of Psychiatry x. 333 With the disappearance in Britain of the specialised psychiatric social worker and the introduction of generic social work, the numbers of CPNs [= community psychiatric nurses] increased dramatically.

1884 Scotsman 30 Aug. 6/5 Both parties—the psychiatrical and the philanthropic.

1938 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 82 Rather more than the first half of the book is concerned more directly with anthropological than with psychological or psychiatrical material.

1998 P. Sloan in R. C. Handy et al. Alzheimer's Dis. iii. 28 Subtle..changes that may not be readily identifiable..in a typical bedside neurological or psychiatrical examination.

1847 H. E. Lloyd & B. G. Babington tr. E. von Feuchtersleben Princ. Med. Psychol. 287 There is in these words ethically and psychiatrically [Ger. psychiatrisch] an important intimation of the dangerous weakness of man.

1921 ‘M. B., Oxon’ Cosmic Anat. ix. 122 It is quite possible that psychiatrically Jung's deduction was right.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 768/1 Every patient was assessed psychiatrically to determine whether..the depression of mood (as opposed to the severity of the illness) was mild, moderate or severe.

1986 D. W. Winnicott Essays i. 13 Psychoanalysis is a method for treating psychiatrically ill people by psychological means.