Psychiatry is the part of medicine that studies and treats mental illness. It is the field, not the person — the person is a psychiatrist. In a hospital, psychiatry is the department that helps people whose minds are unwell, with medicine, with talking, or with both.

Psychiatry精神醫學 is the part of medicine是醫學裡的一個部分 that studies and treats研究並治療 mental illness精神疾病。It is the field它指的是這個領域，not the person而不是那個人——the person那個人 is a psychiatrist是psychiatrist（精神科醫師）。In a hospital在醫院裡，psychiatry精神科 is the department是負責 that helps people幫助 whose minds are unwell心理生病的人 的科別，with medicine, with talking, or with both用藥物、用談話、或兩者都用。

People often set it next to psychology as if the two were twins. Though actually they are not. Psychology is the wider study of how people think and feel, including healthy people. Psychiatry is specifically medical: illness, diagnosis, treatment.

People人們 often set it next to psychology常常把它跟psychology（心理學）擺在一起，as if the two were twins好像這兩個是雙胞胎一樣。Though actually不過其實 they are not它們不是。Psychology心理學 is the wider study是更廣泛的研究 of how people think and feel關於人怎麼想、怎麼感覺，including healthy people包括健康的人在內。Psychiatry精神醫學 is specifically medical則是專屬醫學的：illness, diagnosis, treatment疾病、診斷、治療。

The English word was borrowed from French psychiatrie. We first see it in English in 1846, so it is a fairly modern medical name, not an old farm-and-hearth word.

The English word這個英文字 was borrowed from是借自 French psychiatrie法文的psychiatrie。We我們 first see it第一次在英文裡看到它 in English in 1846是1846年，so it is所以它算是 a fairly modern medical name一個相當現代的醫學名詞，not an old farm-and-hearth word而不是古老的鄉土用字。