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What does psychiatry mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) The branch of medicine that subjectively diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioural conditions.
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Optimism about curability was misplaced despite the emerging science of psychiatry, and hospital crowding led to a lapse to custodianship again.
One of the real tasks in psychiatry is to be able to sit with and experience people in their entirety, and not as a set of boxes.
The need for continued research into the affinity for what is unalive is still an important task for students of psychoanalysis and psychiatry.
The Jungian approach to treatment is, again, very different from conventional psychiatry.
He was at the forefront of developments in what became known as liaison psychiatry.
Psychotherapy may be in conflict with biomedical psychiatry in its conceptualisation of mental illness.

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