Over psychiaters en patiënten

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Psychiatrie is een specialisme en de psychiater een geneesheer-specialist
Uit fr. spécialisme (1876 `speciaal karakter', 1877 `specialisatie'), of uit eng. specialism
Geneesheer voor zielsziekten; zenuwarts

SPÉCIAL, -ALE, -AUX, adj. et subst.

Étymol. et Hist. 1. Ca 1160 especïel « particulier à une espèce, par opposition à général » (Eneas, 6480 ds T.-L.); ca 1165 special « qui a des propriétés spécifiques » (Troie, éd. L. Constans, 23315); 2. a) 1789 pouvoir spécial (Sieyes, Tiers état, p. 84); b) 1816-24 génie spécial (Chateaubr., Mél. pol., t. 2, p. 125); 3. 1865 commerce spécial (Littré, s.v. général). Empr., comme terme didact., au lat.specialis, propr. « relatif à l'espèce, particulier ».

psychiatrist (n.) 1875, from psychiatry + -ist.

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies Bergère and looks at the audience. [Anglican Bishop Mervyn Stockwood, 1961]

An older name was mad-doctor (1703); also psychiater "expert in mental diseases" (1852), from Greek psyche + iatros. Also see alienist (n.).

• 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).

• alienate (v.) 1540s, "make estranged" (in feelings or affections), from Latin alienatus, past participle of alienare "to make another's, estrange," from alienus "of or belonging to another person or place," from alius "(an)other" (see alias (adv.)). Related: Alienated; alienating.
• alias (adv.)  Mid-15c., "otherwise called," from Latin alias "at another time, in another way," from alius "(an)other," from PIE *al- (1) "beyond" (cognates: Sanskrit anya "other, different," Avestan anya-, Armenian ail, Greek allos "another," Gothic aljis "other," Old English elles "otherwise, else," Modern English else).

As we go to the ethymological origin of the psychiater, we get a whole new image of this profession.  It deals with the alias, the ones across the border, the ones who are different.

The shrink deals not with the matters of the Psyche, but with Morals.  In the origin of the word, without delving into the historical catacombs of the profession, the true nature is revealed of the Doctor-Moralist.

moral (adj.) mid-14c., "pertaining to character or temperament" (good or bad), from Old French moral (14c.) and directly from Latin moralis "proper behavior of a person in society," literally "pertaining to manners," coined by Cicero ("De Fato," II.i) to translate Greek ethikos (see ethics) from Latin mos (genitive moris) "one's disposition," in plural, "mores, customs, manners, morals," of uncertain origin. Perhaps sharing a PIE root with English

mood (n.1). Meaning "morally good, conforming to moral rules," is first recorded late 14c. of stories, 1630s of persons. Original value-neutral sense preserved in moral support, moral victory (with sense of "pertaining to character as opposed to physical action"). Related: Morally. 

deviant (adj.) c.1400, from Late Latin deviantem (nominative devians), present participle of deviare "turn aside," from Latin phrase de via, from de "off" (see de-) + via "way" (see via). The noun meaning "one that deviates" is from late 15c.; in the sexual sense, from 1952; also deviate (n.), recorded since 1912.

ethics (n.) "the science of morals," c.1600, plural of Middle English ethik "study of morals" (see ethic). The word also traces to Ta Ethika, title of Aristotle's work. Related: Ethicist.

He has to discipline persons who are alienated from or by society, who went over the borders of what is accepted by the majority, he deals with the others, those who have different ethics. Who turn aside the way of the majority, the moody individuals.  He treats the deviants, in the the Sanatorium.  He inflicts them with neurolepsis, a state of disease, through neuroleptica.  He litteraly attacks the patients nerves and strength, to get them back into the Mood.

Moris
Mos
a will, way, habit, manner, fashion, caprice, humor
Morium
to die, expire
Mora
a division of the Spartan army

Manus
hand 


De psychiater zal zijn patient mores leren 
 d.w.z. iemand terecht zetten, tot zijn plicht brengen; mnl. enen twee leeren tellen of enen manieren, goede manieren aan iemand leeren (eng. to teach one manners), hem betamelijk maken, hem vertellen, hoe hij zich behoort te gedragen. Vgl. Tuinman I, 299: Ymand voor den beitel nemen, dat is, hem mores leeren (ook II, 165); Van Effen, Spect. IX, 58 en Halma, 360: Ik zal u mores leeren als gij dat weer doet, si vous y retournez, je vous apprendrai à vivre; Sewel, 499; Ndl. Wdb. IX, 1128. Ook in het hd. einen Mores (oder Moritz) lehren (anno 1527). Hiernaast mores leeren, op een harde manier leeren hoe men zich moet gedragen (zie o.a. V. Moerk. 571; C. Wildsch. VI, 33).

The Patient (latijn patior) is the one who bears, supports, undergoes, suffers, endures the treatment. De patiënt volgt de behandeling (manus)