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What is Psychopharmacology? The prefix “psycho” originates from the Greek word  psykhē , roughly translating to  “soul,” “mind,” and “spirit,” with the base word “pharmacology” itself being a combination of the Greek prefix “pharma” meaning “drug” and the Greek suffix “ology” meaning “study of” ( Wikipedia Foundation, 2005 ). Pharmacology is the study of how chemical compounds and molecules such as drugs and/or medication interact with the human body, with two main areas of f