psychiatrist
noun
psy·chi·a·trist
sə-ˈkī-ə-trist 
sī-
plural psychiatrists
: a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychiatry
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In November 1999, writer Joan Didion started seeing Roger MacKinnon, a New York psychiatrist, on the recommendation of the psychiatrist who was treating her daughter Quintana for borderline personality disorder, depression, and alcoholism.
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Heller McAlpin, NPR, 22 Apr. 2025
The letter was posted on BlueSky and on X by Dr. Eric Reinhart, a social psychiatrist based in Chicago, on Thursday.
—Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Signs Your Child Feels Pressure To Be Perfect According to Evita Limon-Rocha, MD, a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at Kaiser Permanente, the need to be perfect often stems from a mix of external stressors and internal temperament.
—Sherri Gordon, Parents, 17 Apr. 2025
The nearly eight-hour final episode of the Jonestown series is, among other things, a panoptic account of urban disorder and left-wing politics in the 1970s, and features a dizzying array of references, including to the anticolonial psychiatrist Frantz Fanon and the filmmaker Terrence Malick.
—Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
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Heller McAlpin, NPR, 22 Apr. 2025
The letter was posted on BlueSky and on X by Dr. Eric Reinhart, a social psychiatrist based in Chicago, on Thursday.
—Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Signs Your Child Feels Pressure To Be Perfect According to Evita Limon-Rocha, MD, a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at Kaiser Permanente, the need to be perfect often stems from a mix of external stressors and internal temperament.
—Sherri Gordon, Parents, 17 Apr. 2025
The nearly eight-hour final episode of the Jonestown series is, among other things, a panoptic account of urban disorder and left-wing politics in the 1970s, and features a dizzying array of references, including to the anticolonial psychiatrist Frantz Fanon and the filmmaker Terrence Malick.
—Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Psychiatrist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psychiatrist. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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psychiatrist
noun
psy·chi·a·trist
sə-ˈkī-ə-trəst
sī-
sī-
: a physician specializing in psychiatry
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