Psychiatry
noun
The area of medicine focused on the study, treatment, and prevention of mental health conditions and emotional problems.
She decided to specialize in psychiatry after completing her medical degree.
Often appears as...
- child psychiatry
- forensic psychiatry
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Technical
noun
The practice or profession of diagnosing and treating mental illness.
His career in psychiatry was marked by groundbreaking research into depressive disorders.
Often appears as...
- clinical psychiatry
- psychiatric treatment
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Academic
noun
The area of medicine focused on the study, treatment, and prevention of mental health conditions and emotional problems.
She decided to specialize in psychiatry after completing her medical degree.
Often appears as...
- child psychiatry
- forensic psychiatry
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The practice or profession of diagnosing and treating mental illness.
His career in psychiatry was marked by groundbreaking research into depressive disorders.
Often appears as...
- clinical psychiatry
- psychiatric treatment
Usage tips
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Medical Field
Psychiatry is a specialized area of medicine, not psychology.
She enrolled in medical school to pursue a career in psychiatry.
Pro Tip 2/3Treatment Approach
Psychiatry may involve various treatments including therapy, medication, or hospitalization.
The psychiatrist recommended a combined approach to treat the patient's condition.
Pro Tip 3/3Preventative Focus
Psychiatry is not just about treatment, it also aims to prevent mental health issues.
Preventative psychiatry seeks to reduce the incidence of mental disorders in the community.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Field
Psychiatry is a specialized area of medicine, not psychology.
She enrolled in medical school to pursue a career in psychiatry.
Pro Tip 2/3Treatment Approach
Psychiatry may involve various treatments including therapy, medication, or hospitalization.
The psychiatrist recommended a combined approach to treat the patient's condition.
Pro Tip 3/3Preventative Focus
Psychiatry is not just about treatment, it also aims to prevent mental health issues.
Preventative psychiatry seeks to reduce the incidence of mental disorders in the community.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Field
Psychiatry is a specialized area of medicine, not psychology.
She enrolled in medical school to pursue a career in psychiatry.
Pro Tip 2/3Treatment Approach
Psychiatry may involve various treatments including therapy, medication, or hospitalization.
The psychiatrist recommended a combined approach to treat the patient's condition.
Pro Tip 3/3Preventative Focus
Psychiatry is not just about treatment, it also aims to prevent mental health issues.
Preventative psychiatry seeks to reduce the incidence of mental disorders in the community.
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3 clues to understanding...
She's some other woman pretending to be my mother." Now, why does this happen? Why would somebody -- and this person is perfectly lucid and intelligent in all other respects, but when he sees his mother, his delusion kicks in and says, it's not mother. Now, the most common interpretation of this, which you find in all the psychiatry textbooks,
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The voices in my head PIPE...
that needed to be shown the greatest compassion and care. It was armed with this knowledge that ultimately I would gather together my shattered self, each fragment represented by a different voice, gradually withdraw from all my medication, and return to psychiatry, only this time from the other side.
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Mental health for all by...
knowledge in the everyday world and an especially important challenge that I've had to face is the great shortage of mental health professionals such as psychiatrists and psychologists particularly in the developing world now I trained in medicine in India and after that I chose psychiatry as my
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Your brain hallucinates...
We predict ourselves into existence. Now, I leave you with three implications of all this. First, just as we can misperceive the world, we can misperceive ourselves when the mechanisms of prediction go wrong. Understanding this opens many new opportunities in psychiatry and neurology,
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The future of...
psychedelic research flourished all over the world and showed great promise for the fields of psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy, neuroscience and the study of mystical experiences. But psychedelics leaked out of the research settings and began to be used by the counterculture,
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Could a drug prevent...
once a drug is generic and off patent and no longer exclusive to encourage pharma companies to develop them, because they don't make money. And that's not true for just ketamine. That is true for all drugs. Regardless, the idea itself is completely novel in psychiatry,
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This Is Your Brain on...
psychiatry and neurology and we've merged with other disciplines. Statistical analysis, artificial intelligence, machine learning, even, you know, material sciences, information technology with advances in technology contributing to ever better,
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Miguel Nicolelis:...
so that animals and humans could just move these devices, no matter how far they are from their own bodies, just by imagining what they want to do, our colleagues told us that we actually needed professional help, of the psychiatry variety.
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What is bipolar...
is sometimes used as an emergency treatment. Some bipolar patients reject treatment because they're afraid it will dim their emotions and destroy their creativity. But modern psychiatry is actively trying to avoid that.
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Rediscovering ourselves...
nature my background is in medicine and psychiatry central to my work is the task of helping my patients to come to know themselves a little better to recognize the own contributions towards
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3 clues to understanding...
She's some other woman pretending to be my mother." Now, why does this happen? Why would somebody -- and this person is perfectly lucid and intelligent in all other respects, but when he sees his mother, his delusion kicks in and says, it's not mother. Now, the most common interpretation of this, which you find in all the psychiatry textbooks,
Video examples
The voices in my head PIPE...
that needed to be shown the greatest compassion and care. It was armed with this knowledge that ultimately I would gather together my shattered self, each fragment represented by a different voice, gradually withdraw from all my medication, and return to psychiatry, only this time from the other side.
Video examples
Mental health for all by...
knowledge in the everyday world and an especially important challenge that I've had to face is the great shortage of mental health professionals such as psychiatrists and psychologists particularly in the developing world now I trained in medicine in India and after that I chose psychiatry as my
Video examples
Your brain hallucinates...
We predict ourselves into existence. Now, I leave you with three implications of all this. First, just as we can misperceive the world, we can misperceive ourselves when the mechanisms of prediction go wrong. Understanding this opens many new opportunities in psychiatry and neurology,
Video examples
The future of...
psychedelic research flourished all over the world and showed great promise for the fields of psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy, neuroscience and the study of mystical experiences. But psychedelics leaked out of the research settings and began to be used by the counterculture,
Video examples
Could a drug prevent...
once a drug is generic and off patent and no longer exclusive to encourage pharma companies to develop them, because they don't make money. And that's not true for just ketamine. That is true for all drugs. Regardless, the idea itself is completely novel in psychiatry,
Video examples
This Is Your Brain on...
psychiatry and neurology and we've merged with other disciplines. Statistical analysis, artificial intelligence, machine learning, even, you know, material sciences, information technology with advances in technology contributing to ever better,
Video examples
Miguel Nicolelis:...
so that animals and humans could just move these devices, no matter how far they are from their own bodies, just by imagining what they want to do, our colleagues told us that we actually needed professional help, of the psychiatry variety.
Video examples
What is bipolar...
is sometimes used as an emergency treatment. Some bipolar patients reject treatment because they're afraid it will dim their emotions and destroy their creativity. But modern psychiatry is actively trying to avoid that.
Video examples
Rediscovering ourselves...
nature my background is in medicine and psychiatry central to my work is the task of helping my patients to come to know themselves a little better to recognize the own contributions towards
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Johan Huizinga
Dutch Historian
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
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Robert Jay Lifton
American Psychologist
But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.
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Rob Lowe
American Actor
I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria.
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Martin Seligman
American Psychologist
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
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Ross MacDonald
American Novelist
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.
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Harry Stack Sullivan
American Psychologist
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
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Alfred Hitchcock
English Director
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Laurence J. Peter
Canadian Writer
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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Kay Redfield Jamison
American Psychologist
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
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Kate Millett
American Activist
Psychiatry causes so much death.
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Johan Huizinga
Dutch Historian
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
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Robert Jay Lifton
American Psychologist
But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.
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Rob Lowe
American Actor
I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria.
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Martin Seligman
American Psychologist
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
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Ross MacDonald
American Novelist
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.
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Harry Stack Sullivan
American Psychologist
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
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Alfred Hitchcock
English Director
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Laurence J. Peter
Canadian Writer
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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Kay Redfield Jamison
American Psychologist
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
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Kate Millett
American Activist
Psychiatry causes so much death.
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