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Psychoanalysis vs Psychiatry - What's the difference?

psychoanalysis | psychiatry |

As nouns the difference between psychoanalysis and psychiatry

is that psychoanalysis is (psychoanalysis) a family of psychological theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that work to find connections among patients' unconscious mental processes while psychiatry is (medicine) the branch of medicine that subjectively diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioural conditions.

psychoanalysis

English

Noun

(wikipedia psychoanalysis) (-)
  • (psychoanalysis) a family of psychological theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that work to find connections among patients' unconscious mental processes

    • Related terms

    * psychoanalyst * psychoanalytic * psychoanalytical

    psychiatry

    English

    (wikipedia psychiatry)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (medicine) The branch of medicine that subjectively diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioural conditions.

    • Derived terms

    * psychiatric * psychiatrist

    See also

    * psychopathology English words prefixed with psych-