How to Use psychiatry in a Sentence

psychiatry

noun
  • Of course the writers poke plenty of fun at the field of psychiatry.
    Julie Kling, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Marie’s brand of psychiatry wasn’t enough, not on its own.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In my view, the film goes beyond the subject of the state of the French public hospital and psychiatry.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Child psychiatry is a very in-demand field, and those recruits can take many, many months.
    Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Part of the answer might be found in the void between psychiatry and obstetrics.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Some physicians in the field had heard the emerging calls for palliative psychiatry with alarm.
    Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • One of the last chapters, about more recent changes in psychiatry, has very little about the Morloks, as people, in it.
    Rebecca Onion, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • When Prozac first entered the psychiatry scene in in the late ’80s, the profession was still Freud’s territory.
    Torie Bosch, STAT, 29 Nov. 2023
  • However, in the decades that followed his work has seen its fair share of criticism, not least of all from the fields of psychology and psychiatry.
    Colby Martin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The study was a mix of good and bad news findings, said Paul Harrison, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford and the senior author of the study.
    Frances Stead Sellers, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2022
  • But in fact, psychiatry is desperate for some new tools and is remarkably open.
    Nick Hilden, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2022
  • The most ambitious episodes draw from Harley’s background in psychiatry.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In the last 15 years or so, psychiatry has embraced what’s called a dimensional approach, based on the idea of scales and spectrums of trait and symptom severity.
    David Adam, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The odd part is that many people tuning in for the serial killer stuff will be disappointed, and the armchair psychiatry stuff doesn’t always work.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2022
  • As for what else to expect from the season, Frolov previews a deeper dive into psychiatry.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Your child's first psychiatry visit will be 60 minutes, while follow-ups will be 30 minutes long.
    Brittany Vargas, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
  • And some fields, such as ophthalmology, didn’t translate as well to video chats as others such as psychiatry.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 19 June 2022
  • Richard Lewis, the chair of the department of psychiatry, also spoke about the importance of the in-patient behavioral health facility at the center.
    Peder Schaefer, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2024
  • These days, Cyrus’ world is a little quieter, with hours dedicated to therapy and psychiatry and a lot of time at home with her dogs, Mellow and Marshall.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2022
  • While the term psychiatry was first coined in the early 19th century, the practice of considering emotions as a source of suffering is an approach as old as time.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The team practices an emerging specialty of psychiatry that has been gaining momentum over the past decade but remains rare in street medicine programs around the country.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • But mental illness and psychiatry still carry taboos in this country, which likely will pose barriers for the healing process.
    Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The field of psychiatry has a long history of searching for and attributing differences in the brains of Black people to race, but such ideas have not held up under modern scrutiny.
    Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Kilpatrick, a second-year psychiatry resident at UC San Francisco and a first-time mom-to-be, was expecting twins.
    Leila Haghighat, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Fanon also sought to adapt his psychiatry practice to address the cruelties of colonialism.
    Adam Shatz, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • At the time, Lindz was busy completing a masters degree in creative writing, while Z was studying for her final psychiatry board exams.
    Francesca Street, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Now, just 11% to 15% of psychiatry visits include a full therapy session.
    Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Mittal is chief of the women's mental health division in the department of psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 11 July 2022
  • Those suspicions only grew as Geel’s approach crushed up against the rising medical field of psychiatry.
    Koba Ryckewaert Ilvy Njiokiktjien, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Perry Renshaw, professor of psychiatry at the University of Utah, studies the neurochemistry of the brain and its effects on mood.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022

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