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Example sentences for: psychiatric

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Although in nearly constant physical pain--he had contracted meningitis when he was five, and the headaches continued for the rest of his life--and mental anguish, he functioned reasonably well until the age of 41, when a number of psychotic incidents caused him to be confined in a psychiatric hospital.
Nowadays, though, news of a freshly minted mental disorder--or, better yet, a new edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders containing many such novelties--tends to be an occasion for merriment.
In 1947, Artaud moved from the psychiatric hospital at Rodez to a sort of halfway house at Ivry-sur-Seine, where he had more mobility and was able to receive visitors.
A guy shows up to a psychiatric hospital apparently for treatment and then threatens to stab the staff.
The latter, a compulsive obscene phone caller who longs for his sleek, chic neighbor, is the psychiatric patient of Bill Maplewood (Dylan Baker), who happens to be the husband of Helen's older sister, chipper Trish (Cynthia Stevenson)--and also a pedophile who, in the course of the film, drugs little boys and has (off camera) sex with them.