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psychiatrist

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

noun

  1. a physician who practices psychiatry.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of psychiatrist1

First recorded in 1885–90; psychiatr(y) + -ist
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The author is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and teaches psychiatry residents as a clinical assistant professor of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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The court heard it was the unanimous view of three very experienced consultant forensic psychiatrists that she was suffering a psychotic episode of paranoid schizophrenia at the time.

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The trip's architect was Dr. Humphry Osmond, the psychiatrist who had first guided Aldous Huxley — the author of “Brave New World” and “The Doors of Perception” — in experiments with mescaline. and coined the term “psychedelic.”

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"We are short of about 500 staff of all types - psychiatrists, psychologists, nursing staff - so it is very difficult to meet these targets," she said.

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“Parents have never extended support of this scale and frequency before,” Dr. Michael Kane, a psychiatrist specialized in family medicine, told Salon in an email response to the survey.

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