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Psychiatry is different from psychology in that psychiatry is a branch of medicine aimed at treating mental illness whereas psychology is the science that studies the mental aspects of motivation and behavior. Both words, however, come from a common Greek root psyche. In ancient Greece psyche referred that ethereal aspect of ourselves that isn’t our physical self. And also more literally to our breath, needed for life.  By extension, this word for the fluttery breath of life became the Greek word for butterfly. In Greek mythology Psyche is also the name of a most beautiful mortal young woman with whom the young god Cupid falls in love. Cupid being the god of love this has a nice sort of “love of life” tone to it. The cover of my book Carnal Knowledge has two images of the human body on it; one male, one female. The male is Bacchus. The female is that beautiful Greek Psyche. Her image is actually a detail from a painting called The Awakening of Psyche by Guillaume Seignac. It isn t shown in the detail on the book but here s a link to a more complete image where you can see that the lovely Psyche actually has butterfly wings sprouting out of her back. Returning to our word of the day, psyche meaning “soul” or “spirit” came into English in the 17th century during the renaissance when the most scholarly things always had something Latin or Greek about them. The word psychology also appeared in English in the 17th century but psychiatry waited another hundred years before it appeared in print—this because there wasn’t much thought of curing crazy people before that, mostly they were locked up in asylums. The ending of the word psychiatry is also from Greek and means “healing” whereas the end of psychology is from the Greek word logos which literally means “word”—which is why a logophile is a word lover. But logos also has to it the sense of “to speak,” “discuss” and “reason.” So the literal meaning of psychiatry is spirit healing. Breaking down psychology into its parts we get spirit understanding.

Podictionary weekly is a compilation of the five words of the day from the daily version of podictionary which can also be found at www.podictionary.com Podictionary took a few days off this week and so this episode contains three daily episodes instead of the usual five. Wednesday's podictionary word was ejaculate Thursday's was hologram; and Friday's was limbo

Podictionary weekly is a compilation of the five words of the day from the daily version of podictionary which can also be found at www.podictionary.com This was a bit of a holiday week for podictionary and so there are only two words contained in this episode. Thursday's podictionary word was morphine Friday's was fantasy.

Podictionary weekly is a compilation of the five words of the day from the daily version of podictionary which can also be found at www.podictionary.com Monday's podictionary word was ho ho ho Tuesday's was beast Wednesday's was myriad Thursday's was insomnia; and Friday's was thesaurus

Podictionary weekly is a compilation of the five words of the day from the daily version of podictionary which can also be found at www.podictionary.com Monday's podictionary word was inaugural Tuesday's was auger Wednesday's was ginger Thursday's was siren; and Friday's was chopsticks

Sponsor: GotoMeeting try it free for 45 days, visit www.gotomeeting.com/podcast Podictionary weekly is a compilation of the five words of the day from the daily version of podictionary which can also be found at www.podictionary.com Monday's podictionary word was brand Tuesday's was penitentiary Wednesday's was jail Thursday's was porcelain; and Friday's was china

Podictionary weekly is a compilation of the five words of the day from the daily version of podictionary which can also be found at www.podictionary.com Monday's podictionary word was vicious Tuesday's was trollop Wednesday's was junta Thursday's was fiasco; and Friday's was university

Podictionary weekly is a compilation of the five words of the day from the daily version of podictionary which can also be found at www.podictionary.com Monday's podictionary word was mentor Tuesday's was omen Wednesday's was luxury Thursday's was orgy; and Friday's was wolf

I havenât posted a feedback episode in a long time. The reason for that is that by far the majority of feedback Iâve been getting have been requests for me to look into this or that word on behalf of a listener. Like this one: [AUDIO FILE ONLY AVAILABLE] While I do sometimes find a great word to build an episode around, of course I canât satisfy all those requests. I will be posting an episode on the word mentor next week. But I have recently gotten some non-word-request feedback that I wanted to share with you and I also have a little podictionary news that I want you to hear about. In the podictionary episode on the word iota I talked about how King James I had already been King James IV in Scotland. [AUDIO FILE ONLY AVAILABLE] In fact, this was a bit of pun. I used the word binomial with the two numbers in mind associated with this particular king. So I was trying to make a pun on a mathematical use of the word. But in actuality, the etymology of binomial is from Latin where it referred to someone with a pair of personal names. So my pun was even punnier than I thought. You may have also heard one of the episodes I did that were inspired by the favorite words of authors whose books I admire. Iâd like to do more of these, but getting a hold of a famous author isnât usually too easy. I have been working to move the podictionary website to a new internet host. The website also drives the RSS feed that enables you to get podictionary. I think I have it all figured out so that you shouldnât see much in the way of interruption, but if during the next couple of weeks you do notice problems, and they donât clear themselves after a day, please do visit www.podictionary.com to resubscribe or to see if Iâve posted any news about the transition. Finally I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have made the effort to go out and buy my book. I have gotten feedback from people whoâve purchased a dozen copies to give as Christmas presents and from someone else whoâs a personal trainer whoâs giving it to her clients. It took me five years to bring that book to bookstore shelves so Iâm pretty happy to be able to tell you that I am on the cusp of signing another deal that will bring something else out, likely next spring. I just want to wait until I have the contract actually signed before giving out the details. Thanks to all of you for listening

Podictionary weekly is a compilation of the five words of the day from the daily version of podictionary which can also be found at www.podictionary.com Monday's podictionary word was praline Tuesday's was gimmick Wednesday's was creed Thursday's was health; and Friday's was halibut