psychiatry
gb/saɪkˈaɪətɹi/ us/saɪkˈaɪətɹi/
B2
Anglais
~ 9700
Sens
0 sens
Nom
technical
B2
entity
1
medical treatment of mental illness
A field of medicine that focuses on finding and treating problems with a person’s mind, emotions, and behavior.
Schéma d’usage :
[someone] works in psychiatry
Erreur fréquente :
Learners often confuse "psychiatry" (the medical field) with "psychology" (the scientific study of the mind, not necessarily medical). Another mistake is using it like a countable noun, e.g., *"He is a psychiatry"* instead of "He works in psychiatry" or "He is a psychiatrist." Learners may also say *"I went to psychiatry"* when they should say "I went to a psychiatrist" or "I went to the psychiatry department."
Synonymes
psychological medicine (A more formal or older term that stresses the link between medicine and mental processes; less common in everyday use.)
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mental health medicine (Informal descriptive phrase; broader and less precise than the standard technical term "psychiatry".)
Antonymes
general medicine (Focuses mainly on physical illnesses, contrasting with psychiatry’s focus on mental and emotional disorders.)
Collocations
clinical psychiatry
|child psychiatry
|forensic psychiatry
|modern psychiatry
|the practice of psychiatry
Thèmes
health
|science
|medicine
|mental_health
|core_vocabulary
Exemples
- She decided to specialize in psychiatry after working on a mental health helpline.
- Modern psychiatry combines medication with different forms of psychotherapy.
- The hospital is known for its strong psychiatry department.
- Advances in psychiatry have changed how society understands depression.
- He is writing a textbook on cultural issues in psychiatry.
Exemples pédagogiques
- He studies psychiatry at university.
- My sister works in psychiatry at a large hospital.
- Psychiatry helps people with serious mental health problems.
- I want to learn more about psychiatry and how it treats depression.
- Psychiatry is different from psychology because it is a part of medicine.
Grammaire
Forme canonique
psychiatry
API
GB/saɪkˈaɪətɹi/
US/saɪkˈaɪətɹi/
Syllabes et accentuation
psy - chi - atry (3 syllabes)
Stress on 2nd syllable (chi)
Formes du mot
Noun
- Base: psychiatry
- Plural: psychiatries, psychiatry
Famille de mots
Forms
psychiatries
noun
Core family
psychiatrist
noun B2
psychiatric
adjective B2
Advanced or less common
psychiatrically
adverb
Expressions
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