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What does psychiatry mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) The branch of medicine that subjectively diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioural conditions.
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The need for continued research into the affinity for what is unalive is still an important task for students of psychoanalysis and psychiatry.
Science is sometimes an art, and psychiatry I would say is as much an art as it is a science.
Biological psychiatry and psychology need to rediscover the question of cure.
Psychotherapy may be in conflict with biomedical psychiatry in its conceptualisation of mental illness.
The Jungian approach to treatment is, again, very different from conventional psychiatry.
Optimism about curability was misplaced despite the emerging science of psychiatry, and hospital crowding led to a lapse to custodianship again.

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