psychiatry
/sʌɪˈkʌɪətri
/noun [mass noun]
The study and treatment of mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal behaviour.Treatment of psychiatry is not altering the biochemistry of the brain, it's also healing the soul....
- In modern psychiatry ECT and psychosurgery are used in a much more discriminate and refined manner.
- The Jungian approach to treatment is, again, very different from conventional psychiatry.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek psukhē 'soul, mind' + iatreia 'healing' (from iatros 'healer').