psychiatry
noun
psy·chi·a·try
sə-ˈkī-ə-trē 
sī-
: a branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders
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Core symptoms of the neurodevelopmental disorder are inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity, said study author Dr. Samuele Cortese, professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Southampton in England, in a Tuesday press briefing hosted by the Science Media Centre.
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Kristen Rogers, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
These differences are so notable that Thomas Boyce, MD, an emeritus professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, developed a framework to describe them.
—Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 16 Dec. 2024
The technical psychiatry and neurobiology of later times necessarily lacked Valéry’s poetry, and the poets themselves could never make good on his scientism without ceasing to write poetry.
—Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Trump’s meandering spot on The Joe Rogan Experience saw the two men talk about anything from the UFC to whale psychiatry to the close-call assassination attempt to Trump’s income-tax policies to their grievances with the press.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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Kristen Rogers, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
These differences are so notable that Thomas Boyce, MD, an emeritus professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, developed a framework to describe them.
—Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 16 Dec. 2024
The technical psychiatry and neurobiology of later times necessarily lacked Valéry’s poetry, and the poets themselves could never make good on his scientism without ceasing to write poetry.
—Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Trump’s meandering spot on The Joe Rogan Experience saw the two men talk about anything from the UFC to whale psychiatry to the close-call assassination attempt to Trump’s income-tax policies to their grievances with the press.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Psychiatry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psychiatry. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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psychiatry
noun
psy·chi·a·try
sə-ˈkī-ə-trē
sī-
: a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the mind, emotions, or behavior
Medical Definition
psychiatry
noun
psy·chi·a·try
-trē
plural psychiatries
: a branch of medicine that deals with the science and practice of treating mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders especially as originating in endogenous causes or resulting from faulty interpersonal relationships
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