Psychiatry Defined:
Comes
form the two Greek words Psych meaning the person and his: breath, soul, mind, reason.
The
other iatreia means treatment, healing, restoring
Therefore
it is the Healing of the mind or restoring the soul
Psych (Is Greek for life, spirit,
soul, self, akin to the Greek psychein ---- to breath).
–1. The vital principle of corporeal matter
that is a distinct mental or spiritual entity coextensive with but independent
of body or soma. The soul, self, personality. 2. The specialized cognitive,
conative and affective aspects of the psychosomatic unity: mind; spirit:
the totality of the id, ego and superego including both conscious and
unconscious components.
Iatry (from the Greek iatreia
or action of healing, from iatros physician, medical treatment:
healing.
Of
all branches of learning, Psychiatry is generally conceded to be the most
mystical and obscure, the least susceptible to the usual proofs found in the
other sciences. In the nature of things, the elusiveness and unpredictability
are inescapable as the mind is the most mysterious of natural phenomena.
Written
by W. Howe – June 2009 - Dartmouth
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