In psychiatric terms, smoking is "overdetermined": cigarettes, like other symbols, can mean more than one thing at the same time.
"Which might, in modern psychiatric terms, be a good reason for hating him."
Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state characterized by loss of contact with reality.
In psychiatric terms, the experts said, he suffered from dissociative disorder.
In our psychiatric terms, we would say she was depressed.
"I prefer that you don't use psychiatric terms, Rob."
This psycho-biological condition can be described in medical and psychiatric terms.
Over the years, Jean had grown accustomed to psychiatric terms.
With small children, 4, 5 and 6 years old, we start using some of the psychiatric terms more familiar to adults.
A number of more recent scholars attempted to explain her visions in psychiatric or neurological terms.