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psychiatry
noun
    1. The branch of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental and emotional disorders such as psychoses, neuroses, schizophrenia, depression, eating disorders, mental handicap, etc.
Derivative: psychiatric
adj
    Derivative: psychiatrist
    noun
      A doctor concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
        Thesaurus: therapist, analyst, psychoanalyst, doctor, shrink (slang).
    Etymology: 19c: from psyche + Greek iatros doctor.



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