psychiatry
noun
psy·chi·a·try
sə-ˈkī-ə-trē 
sī-
: a branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders
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Sara Thomas, a research assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University, has for years studied the long-term consequences of Chicago youths’ contacts with the juvenile justice system.
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Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
These differences are so notable that Thomas Boyce, MD, an emeritus professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, developed a framework to describe them.
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In 1977, he was named professor of psychiatry and medical humanities, and in 1995, he was appointed as a professor of social ethics in the School of Education.
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Screening tools used in schools could recognize what might be a cultural way to express distress in Chinese culture, not only through the self-reporting language of Western psychiatry.
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Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
These differences are so notable that Thomas Boyce, MD, an emeritus professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, developed a framework to describe them.
—Parents, 7 June 2026
In 1977, he was named professor of psychiatry and medical humanities, and in 1995, he was appointed as a professor of social ethics in the School of Education.
—ABC News, 7 June 2026
Screening tools used in schools could recognize what might be a cultural way to express distress in Chinese culture, not only through the self-reporting language of Western psychiatry.
—Huaying Wang, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for psychiatry
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“Psychiatry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psychiatry. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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psychiatry
noun
psy·chi·a·try
sə-ˈkī-ə-trē
sī-
: a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the mind, emotions, or behavior
Medical Definition
psychiatry
noun
psy·chi·a·try
-trē
plural psychiatries
: a branch of medicine that deals with the science and practice of treating mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders especially as originating in endogenous causes or resulting from faulty interpersonal relationships
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