Psychiatrie

See also: psychiatrie

German

Etymology

Coined by German physician Johann Christian Reil in 1808 (originally in the form Psychiaterie).[1][2][3] By surface analysis, psycho- + -iatrie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /psyçi̯aˈtʁiː/, [psy.çaˈtʁiː], [ˌpsʏ-], [-çi.aˈtʁiː] (quadrisyllabic pronunciation is unusual in practice)
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  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Hyphenation: Psy‧chi‧a‧trie or Psych‧ia‧trie

Noun

Psychiatrie f (genitive Psychiatrie, plural Psychiatrien)

  1. psychiatry
    Synonym: Seelenheilkunde
  2. mental hospital

Declension

References

  1. Reil, Johann Christian (1808) “Über den Begriff der Medicin und ihre Verzweigungen, besonders in Beziehung auf die Berichtigung der Topik der Psychiaterie [On the term of medicine and its branches, especially with regard to the rectification of the topic of psychiatry]”, in Beyträge zur Beförderung einer Kurmethode auf psychischem Wege [Contributions to the advancement of a treatment method by way of the psyche], Halle, page 161
  2. Andreas Marneros (2008 July) “Psychiatry's 200th birthday”, in The British Journal of Psychiatry, volume 193, number 1, pages 1–3
  3. Devin K. Binder, M.D., Ph.D, Karl Schaller, M.D., Hans Clusmann, M.D. (2007 November) “The seminal contributions of Johann-Christian Reil to anatomy, physiology, and psychiatry”, in Neurosurgery, volume 61, number 5, →PMID, pages 1091–1096

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