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English noun: psychiatry

1. psychiatry (cognition) the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders


Synonymspsychological medicine, psychopathology


Broader (hypernym)medical specialty, medicine


Narrower (hyponym)alienism, mental hygiene, psychotherapeutics, psychotherapy


Domain category membersacting out, analyse, analyze, anorexia nervosa, anxiety, anxiousness, autism, compensation, confabulate, confabulation, conversion, defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction, denial, displacement, disturbance, echolalia, expansive, folie, idealisation, idealization, intellectualisation, intellectualization, isolation, major depressive episode, mental disorder, mental disturbance, overcompensation, paramnesia, projection, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze, psychological disorder, rationalisation, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repress, repression, resistance, suppress









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