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Definitions of psychiatry
  1. noun
    the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
Definition that contains psychiatry
  • defense (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
  • resistance (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
  • shrink a physician who specializes in psychiatry
  • psychiatrist a physician who specializes in psychiatry
  • defence (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
  • anxiety (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic
  • compensation (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
  • psychiatric relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry
  • denial (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
  • isolation (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
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