psychiatrist
a physician who practices psychiatry.
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- psychiatrist , psychologist, psychoanalyst, psychotherapist
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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.
How colonialism and capitalism helped place a stigma on mental illness | Balaji Ravichandran | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostShe is a former psychiatrist with training in political psychology.
Why Fights Over The COVID-19 Vaccine Are Everywhere On Facebook | Kaleigh Rogers | January 22, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThis 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.
Oregon just voted to legalize magic mushrooms. Here’s what that actually means. | Rachel Feltman | November 5, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIn 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.
Morning Report: Our Election Guide Is Here | Voice of San Diego | October 19, 2020 | 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.
Why Experts Are Exploring Climbing as a Form of Therapy | Ula Chrobak | October 6, 2020 | Outside Online
In Psycho a psychiatrist (the young Simon Oakland) tells us in clinical terms what we've seen.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA psychiatrist who attended one such conference blamed television for the complacency.
A defense psychiatrist concluded that Reyes was not capable of telling the truth.
He liked to quote a psychiatrist who described MDMA as “penicillin for the soul.”
The Week in Death: Alexander Shulgrin, Who Synthesized the Drug Ecstasy | The Telegraph | June 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“A month before I was arrested, my [high school] counselor took me to see a psychiatrist,” she reported.
The First Modern School Shooter Feels Responsible for the Rest | Michael Daly | May 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhere the portly figure of the eminent psychiatrist had stood was now nothing, not even a half man.
The 4-D Doodler | Graph WaldeyerThe exceptionally acute psychiatrist Meynert shows how physiognomics depends on irradiation and parallel images.
Criminal Psychology | Hans GrossThe psychiatrist asked tranquilly, "You can't guess what choice it is that you must make, or its alternative?"
Assignment's End | Roger DeeHe glanced at his strap watch, and the time made him stand up before the little psychiatrist could speak again.
Assignment's End | Roger DeeAlcorn, mulling over the cryptic half-knowledge gained from the clippings, wondered what the little psychiatrist might make of it.
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