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The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease.

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  • Up next, my interview with a scientologist whose organization investigates what they call psychiatry -- psychiatric abuses.
  • And this is what got Rush into what we know as psychiatry, the idea of treating these people as organically ill, as well as, you know, psychologically ill.
  • Because of my background I was also interested in psychiatry, and
  • According to Scientology. org, “psychiatry is not a science.”
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  • This was the final winning word in the 1948 National Spelling Bee.
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