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Wikipedia has an article on: Psychiatry

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhē), “‘soul’”) + ἰατρεία (iatreia), “‘healing’”) from ἰάομαι (iaomai), “‘I heal’”).

Noun

Singular psychiatry

Plural psychiatries

psychiatry (plural psychiatries)

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

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Trivia

Psychiatry was the winning word at the 21st Scripps National Spelling Bee. [1]

 

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