English noun: psychological medicine |
1. | psychological medicine (cognition) the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders |
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| Synonyms | psychiatry, psychopathology |
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| Broader (hypernym) | medical specialty, medicine |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | alienism, mental hygiene, psychotherapeutics, psychotherapy |
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| Domain category members | acting 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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