psychiatricadjective
uk/ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.rɪk/us/ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.rɪk/of or relating to the study of mental illness:
psychiatric treatment
a psychiatric patient
the hospital's psychiatric unit
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- The psychiatric team decided that committal would not be beneficial in her case.
- He worked as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital.
- The psychiatric section is segregated from the rest of the prison.
- He has been transferred to a psychiatric hospital.
- This is an interesting psychiatric case study of a child with extreme behavioural difficulties.
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Science of psychology & psychoanalysis
- commit
- committal
- Freudian
- gestalt
- id
- inkblot test
- Jungian
- Oedipal
- psych
- psycho
- psychoanalyse
- psychological
- repression
- shock therapy
- shrink
- subliminal
- superego
- trance
- transference
- word association
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psychiatrically
adverb uk/ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.rɪ.kəl.i/us/ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.rɪ.kəl.i/