psychopharmacologist

From psychopharmacology +‎ -ist.

psychopharmacologist (plural psychopharmacologists)

1. A person involved in psychopharmacology.
   • 1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 4:

     The psychopharmacologist (I like to call his office the Fifth Avenue Crack House, because all he really does is write prescriptions and hand out pills) told me I shouldn't.

   • 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.

   • 2014 January 28, Kat Kinsman, “10 things we learned about surviving anxiety”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     But a psychopharmacologist felt his physical symptoms were so extreme that unless he tamped those down, he couldn’t benefit from other coping techniques, according to Stossel.