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psychiatry  

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  • Psychiatry is the field of medicine that is devoted to the scientific study of mental illness and the evidencebased treatment of mental disorders. A physician must complete a four-year course of postgraduate training after college and medical school to qualify as a psychiatrist. [Source: Encyclopedia of Disability; Psychiatry]

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