psychologistnoun [ C ]
uk/saɪˈkɒl.ə.dʒɪst/us/saɪˈkɑː.lə.dʒɪst/B2 someone who studies the human mind and human emotions and behaviour, and how different situations have an effect on people:
a child psychologist
an educational psychologist
She spent 15 years as a clinical psychologist.
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- Research psychologists normalize the results of their studies by comparing their subjects' behaviour with that of the general public.
- Despite what many people think, aversion therapy is no longer used by professional psychologists in this country.
- The psychologist's attitude seemed far too casual, even brutal.
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Science of psychology & psychoanalysis
- commit
- committal
- Freudian
- gestalt
- id
- inkblot test
- Jungian
- Oedipal
- psych
- psycho
- psychoanalyse
- psychological
- repression
- shock therapy
- shrink
- subliminal
- superego
- trance
- transference
- word association
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