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social psychiatry

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social psychiatry  
n.  The branch of psychiatry that deals with the relationship between social environment and mental illness.
social psychiatrist n.
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Main Entry: social psychiatry
Function: noun
1 : a branch of psychiatry that deals in collaboration with related specialties (as sociology and anthropology) withthe influence of social and cultural factors on the causation, course, and outcome of mental disorder
2 : the application of psychodynamic principles to the solution of socialproblems
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social psychiatry n.
The branch of psychiatry that deals with the relationship between social environment and mental illness.

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