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alienist
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Word definitions for alienist in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who treats mental illness, 'mad doctor,' " 1864, from French aliéniste , from alienation in the sense of "insanity, loss of mental faculty," a sense attested in English from late 15c. (see alienate ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alienist \Al"ien*ist\, n. [F. ali['e]niste.] One who treats diseases of the mind. --Ed. Rev.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Alienist is an archaic term for a psychiatrist or psychologist . Despite falling out of favor by the middle of the twentieth century, it received renewed attention when used in the title of Caleb Carr 's novel The Alienist (1994). Although currently not ...
Usage examples of alienist.
Gregg Purvis, the famous alienist, who was called over there to the Psychopathic by someone back of the scenes to look Sandringham over.
Washington Street and indisputably the biggest alienist in the world and certainly the only honest one since he never takes a fee for testifying, and never gives an interview to a newspaper.
An alienist came from Berlin and said I was suffering from female castration complex.
The morbid listening of his mother in the night brought out the fact that he made frequent sallies abroad under cover of darkness, and most of the more academic alienists unite at present in charging him with the revolting cases of vampirism which the press so sensationally reported about this time, but which have not yet been definitely traced to any known perpetrator.
Ward refrained from shewing this letter to the alienists, they did not refrain from acting upon it themselves.
Ward, and had come to an agreement with him on several points which both felt the alienists would ridicule.
This is no common case--it is a madness out of time and a horror from beyond the spheres which no police or lawyers or courts or alienists could ever fathom or grapple with.
Slater was found unconscious in the hollow of a tree, and taken to the nearest jail, where alienists from Albany examined him as soon as his senses returned.
The alienists listened with keen attention to his words, since their curiosity had been aroused to a high pitch by the suggestive yet mostly conflicting and incoherent stories of his family and neighbors.
Quite true what the alienists said: celibacy was extremely bad for you, as bad as going without proper diet or exercise or meditation, and as likely to upset your mental equilibrium.
This is no common case - it is a madness out of time and a horror from beyond the spheres which no police or lawyers or courts or alienists could ever fathom or grapple with.
Some great French alienists recommend cold shower baths of three minutes or more, but a man in a London asylum recently died from the weight of icy water pouring down on him.
Next to Esquirol, in the middle of the shelf, in a place of honour, Thomas placed Die Pathologic undTherapie der psychischen Krankheiten, the book most admired by the other alienists he had met.
Jacques, we have barely begun our lives as alienists and already you are declaring the profession moribund.
He wrote love stories, a thing I have always kept free from, holding the belief that the well-known and popular sentiment is not properly a matter for publication, but something to be privately handled by the alienists and florists.