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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (26774)	9/13/1999 12:12:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

First, let's dispose of your folk-etymology. My dictionary of choice, is Liddell-Scott's Lexicon of Greek-English. (You know what made Liddell famous, don't you?) PSYCHE means "breath (first of all)." Thus one would expect psychology to mean the study of halitosis. Homer used it first to denote a ghost, but it was used by Greeks to denote soul, life, heart, mind, reason, understanding. "Psychiatry" is defined in the earliest citations (mid 19th century) in OED as "medical treatment of the mind." You have to look at both roots --- psyche and iatros to get the appropriate meaning for the total word.