| 单词 | psychiatry |
| 释义 | psychiatry (once / 1020 pages) n If you study psychiatry, you're studying a branch of medicine helps people with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. With the correct diagnosis and treatment, psychiatry can help people with mental disorders live healthy and productive lives. First used in the 19th century, the noun psychiatry originates from the Middle Latin word psychiatria, meaning "a healing of the soul," which traces back to the Greek word psykhe, meaning "mind," and iatreia, meaning "healing, care." Someone who practices psychiatry focuses on healing the soul — or the mind — of those suffering from mental illness. Various treatments include medication and therapy. WORD FAMILYpsychiatry: psychiatric, psychiatrical, psychiatries, psychiatrist+/psychiatric: psychiatrically/psychiatrist: psychiatrists USAGE EXAMPLESLike other movements that seek to challenge the authority of psychiatry’s diagnostic categories, the Hearing Voices Movement is controversial. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) “They invest more in their remaining connections,” said Gary Kennedy, director of geriatric psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) But David Spiegel, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford who is unaffiliated with X2AI, told me that he found their diagnostic capacities promising. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) n the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders Syn|Hypo|Hyper psychological medicine, psychopathology alienism an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness mental hygiene, psychotherapeutics, psychotherapythe branch of psychiatry concerned with psychological methods clinical psychologythe branch of psychology concerned with the treatment of abnormal mentation and behavior Freudian psychologythe psychological theories of Sigmund Freud Jungian psychologythe psychological theories of Carl Jung medical specialty, medicine the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |
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