psychiatrist
/sʌɪˈkʌɪətrɪst
/noun
A medical practitioner specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.Belmarsh also had a team of mental health specialists including three psychiatrists and three psychiatric nurses....
- Your doctor may refer you to a psychiatrist or a community psychiatric nurse.
- Within the core Medicare system, most serious mental disorders are treated by psychiatrists.
Synonyms
psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychopathologist, psychotherapist, therapist, counsellor;
mind doctor, head doctor;
North American alienist
informal shrink, headshrinker, trick cyclist
men in white coats
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- overhype
- overidentification
- overidentify
- Overijssel
- overinclusion
- overinclusive
- overindulge
- overindulgence
- over-indulgency
- overindulgent
- over-inflate
- overinflated
- overinflation
- over-influence
- over-inform
- over-informed
- over-inhibited
- over-inhibition
- overinsurance
- over-insure
- overinsured
- over-intellectual
- over-intellectualization
- over-intellectualize