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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to psychiatry: Psychiatry – medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities. == What ''type'' of thing is psychiatry? == * Academic discipline – field of study with academic departments, curricula and degrees; national and international societies; and specialized journals. * Scientific field (a branch of science) – widely-recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer reviewed research is published. * * A natural science – field that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific methods. * * * A biological science – a branch of biology, which is concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.〔Based on definition from (Aquarena Wetlands Project glossary of terms. )〕 * * * * A medical specialty – branch of medical science. After completing medical school, physicians or surgeons usually further their medical education in a specific specialty of medicine by completing a multiple year residency to become a medical specialist. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Outline of psychiatry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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