is a specific kind of: medical specialty, medicine.

is a broader term that covers: alienism | mental hygiene, psychotherapeutics, psychotherapy.

domain member category: echolalia | resistance | paramnesia | autism | confabulation | acting out | compensation | conversion | defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction | denial | displacement | idealisation, idealization | intellectualisation, intellectualization | isolation | overcompensation | projection | rationalisation, rationalization | reaction formation | regression | repression | anorexia nervosa | disturbance, folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder | anxiety, anxiousness | major depressive episode | repress, suppress | analyse, analyze, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze | confabulate | expansive ... show more.

derivation: head-shrinker, psychiatrist, shrink | psychopathic, psychopathologic, psychopathological | psychiatric, psychiatrical.