psychiatry
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
psychiatry /sʌɪˈkʌɪətri/
▶noun the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal behaviour.
– derivatives
psychiatric /ˌsʌɪkɪˈatrɪk/ adjective,
psychiatrically adverb.
psychiatric /ˌsʌɪkɪˈatrɪk/ adjective,
psychiatrically adverb.
– origin C19: from Gk psukhē ‘soul, mind’ + iatreia ‘healing’ (from iatros ‘healer’).
'psychiatry' also found in these Oxford entries:
abulia
- algolagnia
- alienation
- anergia
- anhedonia
- antisocial
- anxiety
- Asperger's syndrome
- automatism
- catatonia
- confabulate
- conversion
- coprolalia
- cyclothymia
- decondition
- dissociate
- dissociation
- dyscalculia
- dysgraphia
- dysphasia
- dysphoria
- dysthymia
- echolalia
- erotomania
- exhibitionism
- free-floating
- fugue
- hyperkinesis
- hypomania
- hysteria
- hysterical
- insight
- Korsakoff's syndrome
- learned helplessness
- management
- maniac
- manic
- Munchausen's syndrome
- neuropsychiatry
- obsessive–compulsive
- paramnesia
- paraphilia
- parasuicide
- personality disorder
- psych
- psychopharmacology
- schizoid
- self-harm
- somatization
