psychiatry

Noun

Meaning

The application of the healing art to mental diseases.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

psychopathology psychological medicine doctor analysis psychology mental medicine therapy psychiatric asylum psychic shrink analyst psychologist psychoanalysis
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Antonyms

ignorance neglect oversight abandonment negligence indifference
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Hypernyms

medicine medical specialty

Hyponyms

psychotherapy alienism mental hygiene psychotherapeutics

Related terms

psychology psyche psychopathology

Examples

Television 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

Close letter words and terms

psychiatristlike psychiatrization psychiatrize psychic psychic arts psychic blindness