psychiatry

English

Etymology

First attested in 1846. From French psychiatrie, from Medieval Latin psychiatria. By surface analysis, psych- +‎ -iatry.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /saɪˈkaɪ.əˌtɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

psychiatry (usually uncountable, plural psychiatries)

1. (medicine) The branch of medicine that focuses on mental and behavioral health by subjectively diagnosing, treating, or preventing mental disorders (mental illnesses) and behavioural conditions.

Derived terms

• antipsychiatry
• biopsychiatry
• ecopsychiatry
• ethnopsychiatry
• gerontopsychiatry
• geropsychiatry
• immunopsychiatry
• neuropsychiatry
• orthopsychiatry
• pedopsychiatry
• pharmacopsychiatry
• postpsychiatry
• psychiatric
• psychiatrist
• psychiatrize
• telepsychiatry
• xenopsychiatry
• zoopsychiatry

 

Related terms

• psyche
• psychology
• psychopathology

 

Translations

branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders

• Adyghe: психиатрие f (psixiatrije)
• Albanian: psikiatri (sq) f
• Arabic: الطِّبّ النَّفْسِيّ (aṭ-ṭibb an-nafsiyy)
• Armenian: հոգեբուժություն (hy) (hogebužutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: psixiatriya
• Bashkir: психиатрия f (psixiatriya)
• Belarusian: псіхіятры́я f (psixijatrýja), псыхія́трыя f (psyxijátryja)
• Bulgarian: психиа́трия f (psihiátrija)
• Burmese: စိတ်ရောဂါပညာ (citrau:gapa.nya)
• Catalan: psiquiatria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 精神病學／精神病学 (zing¹ san⁴ beng⁶ hok⁶), 精神醫學／精神医学 (zing¹ san⁴ ji¹ hok⁶)

  Hokkien: 精神醫學／精神医学 (cheng-sîn-i-ha̍k)

  Mandarin: 精神病學／精神病学 (zh) (jīngshénbìngxué), 精神醫學／精神医学 (zh) (jīngshén yīxué)

• Czech: psychiatrie (cs) f
• Danish: psykiatri (da) c
• Dutch: psychiatrie (nl) f
• Esperanto: psikiatrio
• Estonian: psühhiaatria
• Finnish: psykiatria (fi)
• French: psychiatrie (fr) f
• Galician: psiquiatría (gl)
• Georgian: ფსიქიატრია (psikiaṭria)
• German: Psychiatrie (de) f, Seelenheilkunde f
• Greek: ψυχιατρική (el) f (psychiatrikí)
• Hebrew: פְּסִיכִיאַטְרְיָה (he) (psikhi'atr'yá)
• Hindi: मनश्चिकित्सा f (manaścikitsā)
• Hungarian: pszichiátria (hu)
• Ido: psikiatrio (io)
• Irish: síciatracht
• Italian: psichiatria (it)
• Japanese: 精神医学 (ja) (せいしんいがく, seishin igaku)
• Kannada: ಮನೋವೈದ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (manōvaidyaśāstra)
• Kazakh: психиатрия (psixiatriä)
• Korean: 정신의학(精神醫學) (jeongsinuihak)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دەروونپزیشکی (derûnipzîşkî)

  Northern Kurdish: psîkiyatrî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: психиатрия (psihiatriya)
• Latvian: psihiatrija f
• Lithuanian: psichiatrija f
• Macedonian: психијатрија f (psihijatrija)
• Malay: psikiatri
• Maori: mātai mate hinengaro
• Mazanderani: روان پزشکی
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: психиатри (psixiatri)

• Nepali: मनोरोग विज्ञान (manorog vigyāna)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: psykiatri m

  Nynorsk: psykiatri m

• Persian: روانپزشکی (fa) (ravân-pezeški)
• Polish: psychiatria (pl) f
• Portuguese: psiquiatria (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸਾਈਕੈਟਰੀ (sāīkaiṭrī)
• Romanian: psihiatrie (ro) f
• Russian: психиатри́я (ru) f (psixiatríja)
• Scottish Gaelic: leigheas-inntinn m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: психија̀трија f

  Roman: psihijàtrija (sh) f

• Slovak: psychiatria f
• Slovene: psihiatrija (sl) f
• Spanish: psiquiatría (es) f
• Swahili: saikatria
• Swedish: psykiatri (sv) c
• Tajik: равонпизишкӣ (ravonpiziški), психиатрия (psixiatriya)
• Tatar: психиатрия f (psixiatriyä)
• Telugu: మనోరోగచికిత్స (manōrōgacikitsa)
• Thai: จิตเวชศาสตร์ (th) (jìt-dtà-wêet-chá-sàat)
• Turkish: psikiyatri (tr)
• Ukrainian: психіатрі́я (psyxiatríja)
• Uzbek: psixiatriya (uz)
• Vietnamese: tâm thần học
• Volapük: lanivestig, lienetisanav
• Yiddish: פּסיכיאַטריע (psikhyatrye)

See also

• neuropathology
• neuropathy
• neurosis