psychiatrist

[ si-kahy-uh-trist, sahy- ]

noun

1. a physician who practices psychiatry.

Word History and Origins

Origin of psychiatrist¹

First recorded in 1885–90; psychiatr(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

Instead of philosophers and theologians, we now look to psychologists and psychiatrists to provide us with the keys to happiness or, if not that, at least relieve us of our pain.

From Washington Post

She is a former psychiatrist with training in political psychology.

From FiveThirtyEight

This study and others suggest that when taken in the right setting—with the supervision and guidance of a therapist, psychiatrist, or some other mental health counselor—psilocybin can increase the effectiveness of typical therapy.

From Popular-Science

In a district document obtained by Huntsberry, district officials also admitted some students will have in-person access to psychiatrists and speech pathologists while others will not.

From Voice of San Diego

“Anything that gets people who are suffering from depression active physically and socially is a good thing,” Catherine Forneris, a psychiatrist at the University of North Carolina, says of the research team’s findings.

From Outside Online

In Psycho a psychiatrist (the young Simon Oakland) tells us in clinical terms what we've seen.

From The Daily Beast

A psychiatrist who attended one such conference blamed television for the complacency.

From The Daily Beast

A defense psychiatrist concluded that Reyes was not capable of telling the truth.

From The Daily Beast

He liked to quote a psychiatrist who described MDMA as “penicillin for the soul.”

From The Daily Beast

“A month before I was arrested, my [high school] counselor took me to see a psychiatrist,” she reported.

From The Daily Beast

Where the portly figure of the eminent psychiatrist had stood was now nothing, not even a half man.

From Project Gutenberg

The exceptionally acute psychiatrist Meynert shows how physiognomics depends on irradiation and parallel images.

From Project Gutenberg

The psychiatrist asked tranquilly, "You can't guess what choice it is that you must make, or its alternative?"

From Project Gutenberg

He glanced at his strap watch, and the time made him stand up before the little psychiatrist could speak again.

From Project Gutenberg

Alcorn, mulling over the cryptic half-knowledge gained from the clippings, wondered what the little psychiatrist might make of it.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• clinician
• doctor
• psychoanalyst
• psychologist
• psychotherapist
• therapist