psychiatry

psychiatry
psychiatry NOUN the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of mental illness and emotional disturbance.
DERIVATIVES psychiatric adjective psychiatrically adverb.
ORIGIN from Greek psukh 'soul, mind' + iatreia 'healing' .

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