Definition of psychiatry Psychiatry

/sajkajˈʌtɹi/ - [saykayutree] - psy•chi•a•try

We found 6 definitions of psychiatry from 6 different sources.

What does psychiatry mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: psychiatries
psychiatry - the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
		psychopathology, psychological medicine
		medical specialty, medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
		alienism an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness
		mental hygiene, psychotherapeutics, psychotherapy the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means

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Wiktionary

psychiatry (Noun)
The branch of medicine that subjectively diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioural conditions.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

psychiatry (n.)
The application of the healing art to mental diseases.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

psychiatry
A medical specialty which exists to study, prevent, and treat mental disorders in humans.

Wikipedia

Psychiatry is a part of medicine that studies, diagnoses and treats mental illnesses and abnormal behaviours and conditions that cause problems and make life difficult for people. The people who practice Psychiatry and treat others who have psychiatric problems are called "Psychiatrists".

Education.

Psychiatrists first go to university, then to Medical School for 4 years. When they graduate, they get to use the initials M.D. (Medical Doctor) after their names. Then these doctors specialize by training for 3 or 4 years in Psychiatry.

Prescribing Psychiatric Medications.

Psychiatrists can prescribe medications to their patients to help emotional and behavioral problems, but Psychologists cannot. This is because of laws made by government that say only medical doctors can prescribe.

Psychiatrists spend many years of learning about how the body and the brain work. Psychiatrists must learn about all kinds of illnesses. Sometimes a disease in the body causes the brain to work wrong. A Cancer in the Pancreas causes depression. Blood sugar problems in Diabetes Mellitus can cause a bad temper. These are only two examples.

Psychiatrists spend many years learning how medications can help the brain work better. Psychiatrists also learn how medications sometimes cause problems to the brain. Sometimes psychologists send their patients to a psychiatrist if the patient seems to have a problem that medicine might help. The patient will usually continue to see the psychologist.

In the 1950's,