Psychiatric
adjective
Related to the study or treatment of mental illness.
The patient was taken to a psychiatric hospital for treatment.
Often appears as...
- psychiatric hospital
- psychiatric treatment
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Related to the study or treatment of mental illness.
The patient was taken to a psychiatric hospital for treatment.
Often appears as...
- psychiatric hospital
- psychiatric treatment
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Specialized Term
Used mostly by medical professionals, it may not be understood in casual conversation.
She has a psychiatric appointment next week.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensitive Subject
Discussing psychiatric issues requires sensitivity, as it involves personal mental health.
He specializes in psychiatric care for depression.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Interchangeable
'Psychiatric' refers to a medical context and shouldn't be confused with 'psychological', which is broader.
Psychiatric conditions are treated by psychiatrists, not psychologists.
Pro Tip 1/3Specialized Term
Used mostly by medical professionals, it may not be understood in casual conversation.
She has a psychiatric appointment next week.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensitive Subject
Discussing psychiatric issues requires sensitivity, as it involves personal mental health.
He specializes in psychiatric care for depression.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Interchangeable
'Psychiatric' refers to a medical context and shouldn't be confused with 'psychological', which is broader.
Psychiatric conditions are treated by psychiatrists, not psychologists.
Pro Tip 1/3Specialized Term
Used mostly by medical professionals, it may not be understood in casual conversation.
She has a psychiatric appointment next week.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensitive Subject
Discussing psychiatric issues requires sensitivity, as it involves personal mental health.
He specializes in psychiatric care for depression.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Interchangeable
'Psychiatric' refers to a medical context and shouldn't be confused with 'psychological', which is broader.
Psychiatric conditions are treated by psychiatrists, not psychologists.
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Implanting Memories PIPE...
us about the brain right what's happening in the brain when we do this but in my opinion just as importantly we can go and use these artificially activated positive memories you can think of them as sort of weapons now against certain psychiatric disorders to the extent that we can model those and animals so imagine that we can actually
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Why are eating disorders...
First, what is an eating disorder? Eating disorders are a range of psychiatric conditions characterized by these main patterns of restricting food intake, bingeing, or rapidly consuming large amounts of food, and purging or eliminating calories through vomiting, laxatives, excessive exercise, and other harmful means.
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Sherwin Nuland: How...
And, in fact, it didn't make any difference, because I didn't have any patients anymore. So, with the advice of my physician, I had myself admitted to the acute care psychiatric unit of our university hospital. And my colleagues, who had known me since medical school, in that place, said, "Don't worry, Shep.
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Our lonely society makes...
They are maladapted for everyday life, unless they get help. We know that the people who are vulnerable to long-term PTSD are people who were abused as children, who suffered trauma as children, people who have low education levels, people who have psychiatric disorders in their family.
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How does the Rorschach...
to gain new insight into this enigmatic process. Using his inkblot paintings, Rorschach began quizzing hundreds of healthy subjects and psychiatric patients with the same what might this be? However, it wasn’t what the test subjects saw that was most important to Rorschach,
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The dark history of IQ...
They’re no longer used to diagnose psychiatric conditions. But a similarly problematic practice using subtest scores is still sometimes used to diagnose learning disabilities, against the advice of many experts. Psychologists around the world still use IQ tests
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David Anderson: Your...
A questionnaire. Now, part of the reason for this is that we have an oversimplified and increasingly outmoded view of the biological basis of psychiatric disorders. We tend to view them -- and the popular press aids and abets this view --
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Let’s put compassion...
I don't know what you do for a living but I have the best work in the world I teach teenagers now if you have raised a teenager and think that I might need to undergo some psychiatric testing let me remind you that I can't raise their
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A tale of mental illness...
So I'm a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I've spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I might have ended up spending most of my life on the back ward of a hospital, but that isn't how my life turned out.
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What happens when you...
I saw every kind of infectious disease doctors, dermatologists, endocrinologists, cardiologists. I even saw a psychiatrist. My psychiatrist said, "It's clear you're really sick, but not with anything psychiatric.
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Implanting Memories PIPE...
us about the brain right what's happening in the brain when we do this but in my opinion just as importantly we can go and use these artificially activated positive memories you can think of them as sort of weapons now against certain psychiatric disorders to the extent that we can model those and animals so imagine that we can actually
Video examples
Why are eating disorders...
First, what is an eating disorder? Eating disorders are a range of psychiatric conditions characterized by these main patterns of restricting food intake, bingeing, or rapidly consuming large amounts of food, and purging or eliminating calories through vomiting, laxatives, excessive exercise, and other harmful means.
Video examples
Sherwin Nuland: How...
And, in fact, it didn't make any difference, because I didn't have any patients anymore. So, with the advice of my physician, I had myself admitted to the acute care psychiatric unit of our university hospital. And my colleagues, who had known me since medical school, in that place, said, "Don't worry, Shep.
Video examples
Our lonely society makes...
They are maladapted for everyday life, unless they get help. We know that the people who are vulnerable to long-term PTSD are people who were abused as children, who suffered trauma as children, people who have low education levels, people who have psychiatric disorders in their family.
Video examples
How does the Rorschach...
to gain new insight into this enigmatic process. Using his inkblot paintings, Rorschach began quizzing hundreds of healthy subjects and psychiatric patients with the same what might this be? However, it wasn’t what the test subjects saw that was most important to Rorschach,
Video examples
The dark history of IQ...
They’re no longer used to diagnose psychiatric conditions. But a similarly problematic practice using subtest scores is still sometimes used to diagnose learning disabilities, against the advice of many experts. Psychologists around the world still use IQ tests
Video examples
David Anderson: Your...
A questionnaire. Now, part of the reason for this is that we have an oversimplified and increasingly outmoded view of the biological basis of psychiatric disorders. We tend to view them -- and the popular press aids and abets this view --
Video examples
Let’s put compassion...
I don't know what you do for a living but I have the best work in the world I teach teenagers now if you have raised a teenager and think that I might need to undergo some psychiatric testing let me remind you that I can't raise their
Video examples
A tale of mental illness...
So I'm a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I've spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I might have ended up spending most of my life on the back ward of a hospital, but that isn't how my life turned out.
Video examples
What happens when you...
I saw every kind of infectious disease doctors, dermatologists, endocrinologists, cardiologists. I even saw a psychiatrist. My psychiatrist said, "It's clear you're really sick, but not with anything psychiatric.
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David D. Burns
Writer
Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.
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James McGreevey
American Politician
I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.
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Eric Kandel
American Scientist
The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.
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Jean Piaget
Swiss Psychologist
I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.
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Julianne Moore
American Actress
My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.
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Patch Adams
American Author
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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Carl Hart
American Educator
Sleep is probably the most important biological function. If you don't get enough sleep, you can get psychiatric illnesses and all types of different illnesses.
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Michael Hastings
American Politician
The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.
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Jo Brand
British Comedian
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.
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David Starkey
English Historian
I could easily have spent one half of my life in a psychiatric hospital, and the other half in the Priory.
Quote examples
David D. Burns
Writer
Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.
Quote examples
James McGreevey
American Politician
I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.
Quote examples
Eric Kandel
American Scientist
The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.
Quote examples
Jean Piaget
Swiss Psychologist
I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.
Quote examples
Julianne Moore
American Actress
My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.
Quote examples
Patch Adams
American Author
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
Quote examples
Carl Hart
American Educator
Sleep is probably the most important biological function. If you don't get enough sleep, you can get psychiatric illnesses and all types of different illnesses.
Quote examples
Michael Hastings
American Politician
The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.
Quote examples
Jo Brand
British Comedian
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.
Quote examples
David Starkey
English Historian
I could easily have spent one half of my life in a psychiatric hospital, and the other half in the Priory.
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