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Medicine for the mind, where the symptom and the stethoscope are both made of words.
means The branch of medicine that diagnoses and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, with prescription pad included.
from From Greek psyche (soul) plus iatreia (healing) — literally soul-healing, coined in German as Psychiatrie around 1808 by physician Johann Reil.
MD requiredPsychiatrists are doctors; psychologists are not.
Asylum originsField grew from grim 19th-century institutions, not clinics.
Manual bibleThe DSM defines what counts as disorder.