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psychiatric

UK/ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/US/ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/
adjectiveC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #3,803 of 15,258neutral

Psychiatric means to do with the treatment of mental illness. A psychiatric ward, psychiatric care, a psychiatric assessment.

A psychiatrist is a medical doctor and can prescribe; a psychologist is not and mostly cannot, and the confusion between the two is constant. Psychiatric hospitals have shrunk enormously since the 1960s in favour of care in the community. The Greek means healing of the mind.

Definitions of psychiatric

  1. 1adjectivepsychiatricTo do with the treatment of mental illness.C1

    “She works as a nurse on a psychiatric ward, caring for patients with severe depression.”

psychiatric is a quality of medicine.

Where it comes from

From Greek psyche, mind or soul, plus iatros, a healer. Psychiatry was coined in German in 1808.

  1. French

    psychiatrie

  2. English

    psychiatry

  3. English, today

    psychiatric

From psychiatry + -ic or psych- + -iatric. psychiatry Borrowed from French psychiatrie.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

psychiatric in the wild

  • The demand for emergency psychiatric services has rapidly increased throughout the world since the 1960s, especially in urban areas.

    Emergency psychiatry

  • The psychiatric survivors movement arose out of the civil rights movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s and the personal histories of psychiatric abuse experienced by patients.

    Psychiatric survivors movement

  • The Valkenberg Hospital is a large, government-funded, tertiary psychiatric hospital in the city of Cape Town, South Africa.

    Valkenberg Hospital

  • In the United States, the DSM serves as the principal authority for psychiatric diagnoses.

    DSM-5

  • Bushey Fields Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Dudley, West Midlands, England managed by the Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

    Bushey Fields Hospital

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the psychiatrie family

psychiatristpsychiatric

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