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Definition of Psychiatrist
1. Noun. A physician who specializes in psychiatry.
Specialized synonyms: Alienist, Analyst, Psychoanalyst
Generic synonyms: Medical Specialist, Specialist
Specialized synonyms: Horney, Karen Danielsen Horney, Karen Horney, Jaspers, Karl Jaspers, Karl Theodor Jaspers, Charles Frederick Menninger, Charles Menninger, Menninger, Karl Augustus Menninger, Karl Menninger, Menninger, Menninger, William Claire Menninger, William Menninger, Harry Stack Sullivan, Sullivan
Derivative terms: Psychiatry
Definition of Psychiatrist
1. Noun. (medicine) A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Psychiatrist
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychiatrist
Literary usage of Psychiatrist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Science and Criminal Justice by Herman Morris Adler (1921)
"A chief psychiatrist should be appointed by the judge of the Probate Court ...
The chief psychiatrist should be empowered to appoint from a civil service ..."
2. Opportunities for Women in the Municipal Civil Service of the City of New by Fannie M. Witherspoon, Anna Martin Crocker (1918)
"psychiatrist. A specialization which has developed in connection with the Physician
group is that of psychiatrist, or physician for the examination of men- ..."
3. The Ungeared Mind by Robert Howland Chase (1919)
"VIEWPOINT OF A psychiatrist. Advancement In Treatment IN the early part of the
last century a wave of reform respecting the care of the insane arose and ..."
4. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"Every psychiatrist has been consulted by patients who have told him that such
loss of self- control has at times overwhelmed them like a storm from a clear ..."
5. From Fundamental to Accessory in the Development of the Nervous System and by Frederic Burk (1898)
"Studies in this direction have been pursued most notably by Professor Flechsig,
the psychiatrist of Leipzig. His investigation upon the order of development ..."
6. Criminal Types by Vincent Myron Masten (1922)
"IV THE psychiatrist Webster defines psychology as "The science of the human soul;
specifically, the systematic and scientific knowledge of the powers and ..."