psychiatricpsy‧chi‧at‧ric /ˌsaɪkiˈætrɪk◂/ ●●○ adjective 
a psychiatric hospital a psychiatric nurse Charles was suffering from a psychiatric disorder (=mental illness).—psychiatrically /-kli/ adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- psychiatric evaluation
- After psychiatric evaluations found that he was competent to stand trial, Harwood pleaded guilty July 16 to second-degree murder.
- And psychiatric treatments consist these days primarily of drugs, psychotherapy, and shock treatments.
- And in our psychiatric rehabilitation centres for men and women of all ages recovering from mental illness.
- Consequently, they have continued to dominate the style of psychiatric practice in many districts.
- In psychiatric hospitals, the countywide average stay has plummeted from 22 days five years ago to 13 days now.
- She was in a psychiatric hospital last night.
- Some have shifted their focus to other psychiatric disorders, such as eating disorders.
- The court heard that 5 psychiatric reports had been prepared at Broadmoor.
Longman Language Activatora hospital for people who are mentally ill
· Shirley spent most of her adult life in a mental hospital.· At the age of 19 Greg had a nervous breakdown and had to be admitted to a mental hospital.commit somebody to a mental hospital · Knapman was committed to a mental hospital in August.
a hospital for mentally ill people. Psychiatric hospital is more technical than mental hospital: · Humphrey is in a state psychiatric hospital after being convicted of beating his grandmother.· The judge will decide whether Barry will be sent to prison or a psychiatric hospital.
also institution formal a hospital for mentally ill people - use this especially when you do not think this is a good place for someone to be treated: · Sally spent several years in an institution.· Psychiatrists argue that closing down mental institutions will lead to more homeless people on our streets.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Charles was suffering from a psychiatric disorder (=mental illness).COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
relating to the study and treatment of mental illness: Charles was suffering from a psychiatric disorder (=mental illness). (=affecting the mind)· He was diagnosed with a severe psychiatric disorder.
(also a mental hospital old-fashioned) (=for people with mental illnesses)· He was admitted to a secure psychiatric hospital.
· We provide specialist care for young people with mental illnesses.
(=one with problems relating to their mind)· The drug was used in the past to treat mental patients.
· He underwent psychiatric treatment after an episode of severe depression.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Health insurance companies will not cover alcohol or drug related illnesses or psychiatric care.· The timely provision of psychiatric care can dramatically reduce the use and costs of medical care for these patients.· The provision of psychiatric care to these areas must, necessarily, be different from that for densely populated cities.· One Bostonian donated an old car, another, free psychiatric care to help with traumas of war.· Ranby prison, midway between Worksop and Retford, would turn to Bassetlaw Hospital for its prisoners' psychiatric care.· Throughout the modern era, psychiatric care has been misunderstood and stigmatized.· The use of compulsion in psychiatric care is not just a procedural, professional matter.
· Children brought up in community homes are also over represented among psychiatric clinic attenders.· Impotence has for some time been the leading complaint at most college psychiatric clinics.· The monastery of Konigsfelden today houses a psychiatric clinic.· The unnamed man, from Baden-Baden, about 40 miles from Stuttgart, was taken to a psychiatric clinic.· Three years later the first psychiatric clinics were held at Sighthill.· This might be based on a psychiatric clinic or a voluntary agency such as the Samaritans.
· Sometimes it is incorrectly assumed that listing patients' problems precludes inclusion of psychiatric diagnosis.
· Results - Agreement between team and research diagnoses ranged from 90% to 99% for the specific psychiatric disorders studied.· But what defines any psychiatric disorder is the combination of symptoms and how long they last, not one particular symptom.· Sadly, too, psychiatric disorders are still viewed by many people with suspicion and prejudice.· Some have shifted their focus to other psychiatric disorders, such as eating disorders.· Special considerations: there was no indication that the appellant was suffering from psychiatric disorder.· A history of psychiatric disorders also could contribute, some researchers believe.· Those with serious psychiatric disorders, especially depression with serious suicidal ideation or significant impairment of insight.· About 30 percent use injection drugs, and 33 percent have a psychiatric disorder.
· Determinants of childhood disorder Emotional and conduct disorders are the most frequently encountered psychiatric disturbances of childhood.· The prevalence of this dimension of psychiatric disturbance in institutions has not been reported.· Is it the specific disorder, a particular personality trait associated with the disorder, or a general vulnerability to psychiatric disturbance?
· The upshot of the interview is that Jimmy be referred for a psychiatric evaluation in order to assess the need for medication.· The man, Peter Jaffe, is undergoing psychiatric evaluation, Grotz said.· She was ordered by a judge to undergo psychiatric evaluation, the source said.· The boy drew cartoon images of a courtroom sketch artist and a reporter Wednesday while Easton made plans for his psychiatric evaluation.
· The case illustrates a growing crisis for the mentally ill in Mississippi and other states, where psychiatric facilities are scarce.· The number of psychiatric facilities in the state has dropped from 63 in January 1993 to 45 today.· The incident, caused by his impaired mental condition, cast a spotlight on the dearth of psychiatric facilities in the state.· They determine whether to sentence him to prison, confine him in a psychiatric facility or make some other appropriate disposition.
· It was a combination that destroyed his ability to cope with life, and he sought psychiatric help in 1950.· He had no one to confide in and would have seen seeking psychiatric help himself as a sign of weakness.· Small time offenders in need of psychiatric help are being jailed by the courts because of a rundown of psychiatric hospitals.· The dangerous alternative to the psychiatric help he is offering is Despair.· We could respond to their needs at any time of the day or night, whether for psychiatric help or respite care.
· The remainder would be in psychogeriatric assessment wards and in the long-stay wards of psychiatric hospitals.· In this case, however, doctors at the psychiatric hospital asked that Hawkes not be moved, according to police.· A major worry for patients in psychiatric hospitals has always been money and access to it.· Additionally, 22, 472 children were placed in state psychiatric hospitals nationwide in 1986.· I was transcribing an interview with a former administrative executive of a private, for-profit psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents.· Hospital records were sought for such patients who had died in care outside psychiatric hospitals.· Since September, du Pont has been undergoing treatment at a state psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.
· Suicide Although suicide is not, in itself, a psychiatric illness it may be taken as suggestive of impaired mental health.· But why does that prove that the lousy conduct is a psychiatric illness?· The differential diagnosis includes both primary psychiatric illness and a wide range of organic acute brain syndromes, including substance abuse.· The third group includes patients who mutilate themselves, usually in the context of a serious psychiatric illness.· Behaviour in patients with complex partial seizures is usually more repetitive and stereotyped than in psychiatric illness.· It results from the attempt to provide relief from psychiatric illnesses and has only recently begun to be recognised.
· There must always be an opportunity for psychiatric inpatient care when required.· Care on discharge A carefully planned programme of subsequent care should be arranged before a patient is discharged from psychiatric inpatient treatment.· This may be made worse if the patient feels stigmatized because he has been a psychiatric inpatient.
· Nearly 1,000 of the 6,000 population of Leros, for example, are employed in the psychiatric institution.· For Schroder-Sonnenstern, who lived in psychiatric institutions from 1919 onwards, drawing was a means of communicating with the world.
· And it says the decision not to assign a psychiatric nurse was made on medical and not financial grounds.· We now have a new healthcare worker -- a psychiatric nurse practitioner.· Why didn't she become a rape counsellor or a psychiatric nurse?· A psychiatric nurse I talked to in Sheffield works twenty-eight hours and takes home £51 to keep herself and two children.· It is staffed by a team of community psychiatric nurses and a team of social workers together with psychiatrists approved under the Act.· She was also fitted with a hearing-aid and conciliation with the neighbours was engineered by a community psychiatric nurse.· Though he had been a psychiatric nurse Bob attached more value to medication and group therapy than to dream interpretation.· It would also lead to a better use of the skills of social workers, psychiatric nurses, physicians, and psychiatrists.
· In recent years a policy of discharging long-stay psychiatric patients into the community has been introduced.· A welcome exception are the social clubs for former psychiatric patients run by voluntary organizations.· Later, in his book Aromatherapie, he describes how he successfully treated several long-term psychiatric patients with essential oils.· They were trying to insinuate that I belonged with the psychiatric patients.· Art brut was work produced by psychiatric patients, criminals and clairvoyants.
· He identified a variety of mild psychiatric problems, principally neurotic depression and anxiety neurosis, in 86 percent of them.· All psychiatric problems are brain problems, and the psychiatrists are changing their classification scheme to try and avoid that cartesian dichotomy.· Prisons, too, are forced to handle men with profound psychiatric problems in conditions which are totally unsuitable.· It will also give special care to those with medical or psychiatric problems such as memory loss and confusion.· Secondly, there may be a continuity of psychiatric problems only if the risk factor also persists.· Early attachment behaviour is crucial to understanding later psychiatric problems.· Read in studio People who survive road accidents can go on to develop severe psychiatric problems, according to a report out today.· Clients are usually only referred to them, however, when they are already suffering serious psychiatric problems.
· The court heard that 5 psychiatric reports had been prepared at Broadmoor.· The Secretary-General rejected Graham on the basis of his psychiatric report.· A psychiatric report showed he was extremely dangerous, particularly to anyone with whom he formed a relationship.· Sentencing was adjourned while psychiatric reports are prepared.· Judge: Do we have psychiatric reports?· She sought discovery of psychiatric reports held by the defendants who were the education authority.· Mr Justice Jowitt adjourned sentence for social inquiry and psychiatric reports.· The judge asked for more psychiatric reports on Borgois before passing sentence.
· Eighty-nine percent of men and 84 percent of women were previously known to the psychiatric services, indicating longstanding problems.· In others, the general hospital psychiatric service will be able to provide aftercare, including where necessary, family therapy.· These sources confirmed that most patients were cared for within psychiatric services.· If we do take on such students what about improved links with hospital and psychiatric services?· Concluding comments Attempted suicide continues to present a very challenging problem for medical and psychiatric services.· Nor was there a difference in the proportion of those committing suicide who had previously been in touch with the psychiatric service.· In some cases the psychiatric service did not admit people to hospital early enough.
· Psychiatric symptoms Further data concerning the prevalence of a variety of psychiatric symptoms are available from the health and lifestyle survey.· Indeed, his first patient was a Philadelphia man who suffered from epilepsy and psychiatric symptoms.· The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders.· Limbic system disease, which causes both epilepsy and psychiatric symptoms.· Against this was a marked reduction in psychiatric symptoms, scores declining on average by 40 percent.· The authors' purpose in this paper was to attempt to dissect psychiatric symptoms and cognition in schizophrenia.· Organic has tended to mean obvious damage of some sort, producing psychiatric symptoms.
· Next day I decided to speak to Inder Lal about psychiatric treatment.· And of course he was in psychiatric treatment.· Ken Mentle argued that Trevor needed psychiatric treatment more than another chance in an Athletico shirt.· And psychiatric treatments consist these days primarily of drugs, psychotherapy, and shock treatments.· Llanos came to Washington, apparently to enter a psychiatric treatment facility for priests in Maryland.· Only a few of the surveys of homeless mentally ill people have inquired about any history of psychiatric treatment.· Since then, they said, he has been in psychiatric treatment at a military hospital and has been taking medication.
· Although it was promoted particularly to psychiatric units, they have shown little interest.· A large psychiatric unit will have admission wards specific to people with mental illness, continuing care areas and rehabilitation facilities.· Secondly, admission to a psychiatric unit has presumably been the result of distress which in many cases will persist after admission.· If this can not be assured, then the person may require admission to a psychiatric unit.· As with anorexia, the condition tends to recur after traditional forms of hospital treatment in medical or psychiatric units.· Chris and Pauline met while being treated at the same psychiatric unit of a local hospital.· But he criticises staffing levels in the prison's acute psychiatric unit.· The woman was attacked yesterday afternoon while working in the psychiatric unit of the Torbay Hospital, Torquay, Devon.
· She was labeled mentally disturbed and put in the psychiatric ward of a small hospital without any administrative procedure.· They transferred him to the psychiatric ward.· Actually, this is the psychiatric ward.· Officers came to the hospital and lined up inmates from the psychiatric ward.· She checks herself into the psychiatric ward of our local hospital.· By mistake I had been put through not to the hospital but to a psychiatric ward.· Then they took me to Montefiore Hospital to the psychiatric ward.
a psychiatric hospital a psychiatric nurse Charles was suffering from a psychiatric disorder (=mental illness).—psychiatrically /-kli/ adverb