Synonyms for Psychiatry
sɪˈkaɪ ə tri, saɪ-psy·chi·a·t·ry

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1. psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicinenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   psychological medicine, psychiatry, abnormal psychology, psychopathology

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1. List of paraphrases for "psychiatry":

   psychiatric, psych, psychiatrist

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1. Scott Irwin:

   . Dr. Scott Irwin, director of palliative care psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, who was not connected with the study, said the lesson isn't that hospice care is costing too much. Costs should naturally go up because more people are using hospice and using it earlier, which is a really good thing.

2. Alfred Hitchcock:

   Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

3. Jack Wong:

   No one was prepared for the horrific revelation that our precioushaum?na( students) were secretly abused and physically and emotionally traumatized from 1962-1984 by Dr. Robert Browne, Chief of Psychiatry at St. Francis Hospital. And, after abuses were reported, not nearly enough was done. … Kamehameha Schools is deeply and truly sorry.

4. Unknown:

   Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

5. Robert Whitaker:

   There is a story that psychiatry doesn’t dare tell, which shows that our societal delusion about the benefits of psychiatric drugs isn’t entirely an innocent one. In order to sell our society on the soundness of this form of care, psychiatry has had to grossly exaggerate the value of its new drugs, silence critics, and keep the story of poor long-term outcomes hidden.