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Alienist   Listen
noun
Alienist  n.  One who treats diseases of the mind.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Alienist" Quotes from Famous Books



... the lost articles has had long experience as an alienist. He is skeptical as to the reality of what is called mind. So far as his clients are concerned, it is notable for its absence. To be confronted day after day by the absent-minded, and to listen to their monotonous tale of woe, is disenchanting. It is difficult to observe all the amenities ...
— By the Christmas Fire • Samuel McChord Crothers

... slightest ability to judge what he says we declare him a libeler. We read our Le Bon and declare off-hand that it is absurd and wicked to say that the crowd has no more sense than a flock of sheep. When we hear of an alienist who cites the increase of murder, suicide and insanity as evidence that mankind is losing its mental balance, we declare that the man ...
— The Inhumanity of Socialism • Edward F. Adams

... Juvenile Protective Association in the hope that she could discover the whole situation, meantime suspending the sentence. It took hours of patient conversation with the girl and the kindly services of a well-known alienist to break into her dangerous state of mind and to gain her confidence. Prolonged medical treatment averted the threatened melancholia and she was at last rescued from the meaningless despondency so hostile to life itself, which has claimed ...
— A New Conscience And An Ancient Evil • Jane Addams

... of mind, madness, lunacy, craziness, derangement, frenzy, delirium, mania, hallucination, aberration of mind, bedlamism; paranoia, monomania. Antonyms: sanity, rationality, lucidity. Associated Words: alienist, alienism. ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming



Words linked to "Alienist" :   head-shrinker, shrink, psychiatrist



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