psychiatry

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Branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, especially as originating in endogenous causes or as resulting from problematic interpersonal relationships. For the general science of human and animal mind, emotions, and behavior, healthy as well as unhealthy, use "psychology."
psychiatry
Accepted term: 21-Apr-2025