Psychiatrie

See also: psychiatrie

German

Etymology

Coined by German physician Johann Christian Reil in 1808 (originally in the form Psychiaterie).[1][2][3] Surface etymology is 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)

psychiatry
Synonym: Seelenheilkunde
mental hospital

Declension

Declension of Psychiatrie [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Psychiatrie	die	Psychiatrien
genitive	einer	der	Psychiatrie	der	Psychiatrien
dative	einer	der	Psychiatrie	den	Psychiatrien
accusative	eine	die	Psychiatrie	die	Psychiatrien

Related terms

Psychiater
psychiatrisch

References

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
Andreas Marneros (July 2008), “Psychiatry's 200th birthday”, in The British Journal of Psychiatry‎, volume 193, issue 1, pages 1–3
Devin K. Binder, M.D., Ph.D; Karl Schaller, M.D.; Hans Clusmann, M.D. (November 2007), “The seminal contributions of Johann-Christian Reil to anatomy, physiology, and psychiatry”, in Neurosurgery‎, volume 61, issue 5, PMID 18091285, pages 1091–1096