psychiatrist

From psychiatry +‎ -ist.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/

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psychiatrist (plural psychiatrists)

1. A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.

   Synonym: (archaic) psychiater

   • 1969 October 10, “Dividend from Viet Nam”, in Time:

     Says Colonel Thomas Murray, chief Army psychiatrist in South Viet Nam: “Some of our psychiatrists are the most improbable military guys: soft, flabby, unexercised.”

   • 2000 May 28, Peter Wolson, “A World of Psychophobia”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 May 2025:

     Even medical schools seem to have submitted to psychophobia by training psychiatrists almost exclusively as psychopharmacologists instead of as psychotherapists.

   • 2009 July 19, Lizette Alvarez, “Whee! Also, There’s a Net”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe.