psychiatry
/sʌɪˈkʌɪətri
/noun [mass noun]
The study and treatment of mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal behaviour.Treatment of psychiatry is not altering the biochemistry of the brain, it's also healing the soul....
- In modern psychiatry ECT and psychosurgery are used in a much more discriminate and refined manner.
- The Jungian approach to treatment is, again, very different from conventional psychiatry.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek psukhē 'soul, mind' + iatreia 'healing' (from iatros 'healer').
Rhymes
- lipogram
- lipogrammatic
- lipography
- lipoid
- lipoidosis
- lipolysis
- lipolytic
- lipoma
- lipophilic
- lipopolysaccharide
- lipoprotein
- liposculpture
- liposome
- liposuction
- lipotrophin
- lipotropin
- lipovitellin
- lipped
- Lippes loop
- lippie
- Lippi, Filippino
- Lippi, Fra Filippo
- Lippizaner
- Lippmann, Gabriel Jonas
- Lippmann, Walter