psychiatry

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders

Borrowed from French psychiatrie. First attested in 1846.

[A16-47] The institute’s psychiatric examination, which served as a basis for these recommendations, took place in 1922, prior to the advent of many techniques and theories of modern psychiatry,[A16-48] but it is the most objective evidence of Jack Ruby’s childhood character. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission

psychopathology, psychological medicine

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