psychiatry

branch of medicine devoted to the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders
Thing medical_specialty Q7867
psychiatry
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Summary

psychiatry is a medical specialty[1]. psychiatry ranks in the top 3% of medical specialty entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,032 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic discipline[3], social system[4]
  • Subclass of: medicine[5], clinical sciences[6], psychology[7], medicine of the nerves[8]
  • Commons category: Psychiatry[9]
  • Said to be the same as: Q12938198[10]
  • Has part(s): social psychiatry[11], cross-cultural psychiatry[12], forensic psychiatry[13], child and adolescent psychiatry[14], geriatric psychiatry[15], emergency psychiatry[16], consultation-liaison psychiatry[17], addiction psychiatry[18], military psychiatry[19], immuno-psychiatry[20], descriptive psychiatry[21], narcology[22], phenomenological psychiatry[23]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Psychiatry[24]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: healthcare:speciality=psychiatry[25]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[26], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[27], Dresdner Hefte[28], The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[29]
  • Topic has template: Template:Psychiatry[30]
  • Different from: clinical psychology[31], Geisteswissenschaften[32]
  • History of topic: history of psychiatry[33]
  • Exact match: https://schema.org/Psychiatric[34]
  • Practiced by: psychiatrist[35], psychiatric technician[36]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[37]

Why It Matters

psychiatry has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] psychiatry is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

psychiatry has been cited as an influence by Pornography[40], an album[41].

FAQs

Who did psychiatry influence?

psychiatry has been cited as an influence by Pornography[40].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Directory of Open Access Journals. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · Powerek38 · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Eska.pl topic id → tg-H37U-JUXN-sHTP
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dresdner Hefte +1
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn'
    Sitelink count → 122
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Eska.pl topic id: tg-H37U-JUXN-sHTP, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/250718476|psychiatria (#250718476)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7420|eska.pl to"
  2. 6w ago · Gazal world · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gujarati vishwakosh entry → મનશ્ચિકિત્સાવિદ્યા
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Gujarati vishwakosh entry: મનશ્ચિકિત્સાવિદ્યા"
  3. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Hanviller
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  4. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2ZmVel
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → psychiatry
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: psychiatry, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289949660|psychiatry (#289949660)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  6. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001106-psychiatrie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001106-psychiatrie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  7. 22w ago · TiagoLubiana · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Edam ontology id → topic_3419
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Edam ontology id: topic_3419, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289761836|Psychiatry (#289761836)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7899|EDAM Ontology]] #"
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