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Psychiatry

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means the branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness
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Stage 1 of 2
psykhe
Greek · ancient
"the soul, the mind"
the soul or mind, combined with iatreia (healing)
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Stage 2 of 2
psychiatry
English · 1800s
"the treatment of mental illness"
coined for the medical treatment of mental illness
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