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Groomsport | 16:26 Thu 30th Sep 2010 | History
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Good Afternoon - Do you know when the terms Psychiatry, Psychiatrist first entered the language? Was it before the First World War? I doubt it.
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ETYMOLOGY: 19c: from psyche + Greek iatros doctor
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Thanks Emeritus - I know about its origins but when did the term enter the English language
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1846, from Fr. psychiatrie, from M.L. psychiatria, lit. "a healing of the soul," from Gk. psykhe- "mind" (see psyche) + iatreia "healing, care" (see -iatric). Psychiatrist first recorded 1890; the older name was mad-doctor (1703

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Thanks again Emeritus - 1890 is earlier than I would have guessed; better than mad-doctor certainly

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