psychiatrizev.
/sʌɪˈkʌɪətrʌɪz/, /səˈkʌɪətrʌɪz/, U.S. /səˈkaɪətraɪz/, /saɪˈkaɪətraɪz/ transitive. To treat or analyse psychiatrically. (In quot. 1978: to do away with by means of psychiatry or its concepts.)
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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > treat psychiatrically [verb (transitive)]
psychiatrize1929
the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > treat psychiatrically [verb (transitive)] > do away by psychiatry
psychiatrize1978
1929 Sunday Disp. 6 Jan. 3/5 Parents may also be psychiatrised to study their traits and home-life.
1954 E. Jenkins Tortoise & Hare vi. 59 He couldn't be psychiatrized against his will.
1978 Church Times 10 Feb. 11/1 We have psychiatrised away the Seven Deadly Sins. Pride, anger, avarice, envy, sloth, gluttony and lust have been made respectable. They have become self-fulfilment, stress, incentive, insecurity, inertia, defective metabolism and emotional tension.
1994 H. Prins Fire-raising iv. 37 The dangers of expecting psychiatrists to provide answers to near insoluble problems and of adding to the tendency to ‘psychiatrise’ delinquency.
Derivatives
psyˈchiatrized adj.
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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [adjective] > treated psychiatrically
psychiatrized1964
1964 P. Meadows in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 451 Psychiatrized conformity masked as true individuality.
1995 Jrnl. Health & Social Behavior 35 41 LLPDD, the psychiatrized definition of premenstrual syndrome.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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