How to Use psychiatry in a Sentence

psychiatry

noun
  • Of course the writers poke plenty of fun at the field of psychiatry.
    Julie Kling, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Marie’s brand of psychiatry wasn’t enough, not on its own.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In my view, the film goes beyond the subject of the state of the French public hospital and psychiatry.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Child psychiatry is a very in-demand field, and those recruits can take many, many months.
    Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Part of the answer might be found in the void between psychiatry and obstetrics.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Some physicians in the field had heard the emerging calls for palliative psychiatry with alarm.
    Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • One of the last chapters, about more recent changes in psychiatry, has very little about the Morloks, as people, in it.
    Rebecca Onion, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • When Prozac first entered the psychiatry scene in in the late ’80s, the profession was still Freud’s territory.
    Torie Bosch, STAT, 29 Nov. 2023
  • But Nesi, the psychiatry professor, said there’s no need to shield a baby’s eyes when in a room with a television on.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
  • The hospital in Nome has psychiatry available seven days a week on-site as well as through telehealth.
    Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The budgeted cost of the psychiatry center is more than $235 million.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2021
  • However, in the decades that followed his work has seen its fair share of criticism, not least of all from the fields of psychology and psychiatry.
    Colby Martin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The study was a mix of good and bad news findings, said Paul Harrison, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford and the senior author of the study.
    Frances Stead Sellers, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2022
  • But in fact, psychiatry is desperate for some new tools and is remarkably open.
    Nick Hilden, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2022
  • The most ambitious episodes draw from Harley’s background in psychiatry.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In the last 15 years or so, psychiatry has embraced what’s called a dimensional approach, based on the idea of scales and spectrums of trait and symptom severity.
    David Adam, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The odd part is that many people tuning in for the serial killer stuff will be disappointed, and the armchair psychiatry stuff doesn’t always work.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2022
  • While the paradigms surrounding psychiatry seem to be shifting, new drugs and treatments still have a long road to approval and widespread use.
    Claudia López Lloreda, STAT, 17 Aug. 2021
  • As for what else to expect from the season, Frolov previews a deeper dive into psychiatry.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Your child's first psychiatry visit will be 60 minutes, while follow-ups will be 30 minutes long.
    Brittany Vargas, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The right level of care at the right time means a more efficient use of resources, easing the bottleneck of psychiatry that is usually plagued by obscene wait times.
    Chris Molaro, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • As winter approached, mental health experts began to see more teenagers in emergency rooms and psychiatry wards and warned of a rise in drug use, gambling or self-harm.
    New York Times, 27 Mar. 2021
  • And some fields, such as ophthalmology, didn’t translate as well to video chats as others such as psychiatry.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 19 June 2022
  • Richard Lewis, the chair of the department of psychiatry, also spoke about the importance of the in-patient behavioral health facility at the center.
    Peder Schaefer, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2024
  • These days, Cyrus’ world is a little quieter, with hours dedicated to therapy and psychiatry and a lot of time at home with her dogs, Mellow and Marshall.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2022
  • While the term psychiatry was first coined in the early 19th century, the practice of considering emotions as a source of suffering is an approach as old as time.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The demand for psychological support and psychiatry far outstrips the number of health care workers in the field.
    Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The team practices an emerging specialty of psychiatry that has been gaining momentum over the past decade but remains rare in street medicine programs around the country.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • One of the founding members of modern psychiatry, the German physician Emil Kraepelin, was particularly adamant that many diseases of the mind originated deep in the viscera.
    Elsa Richardson, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The enthusiasm that these substances arouse in the field of psychiatry is inversely correlated with the sad reality that even the most reactionary guilds within psychiatry struggle to admit.
    Photovogue, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2024

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