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psy·chi·a·try
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adult home
any of various private residences for former state psychiatric patients, supervised by a department of a state or city government. -
biological psychiatry
a school of psychiatric thought concerned with the medical treatment of mental disorders, especially through medication, and emphasizing the relationship between behavior and brain function and the search for physical causes of mental illness. -
butyrophenone
a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders -
child psychiatry
the branch of psychiatry specializing in the treatment of children. -
forensic psychiatry
the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity. -
funny farm
a psychiatric hospital.