Noun
The application of the healing art to mental diseases.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTelevision has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. Alfred Hitchcock
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. Laurence J. Peter
The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime. J. G. Ballard
After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles. Morton Feldman
The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse. Martin Gardner
So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth)-so that the madman can always be considered the Other, never the Self-mental illness will remain an easily exploitable concept, and Coercive Psychiatry a flourishing institution. Thomas Szasz