A psychiatrist is a medical doctor with special training in psychiatry who is able to conduct psychotherapy and prescribe medications and other medical treatments.
The first psychiatric hospitals were set up in the eighth century in the medieval Islamic world, but many consider that the development of modern psychiatry did not begin until the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
A PSYCHOLOGIST USUALLY HAS AN ADVANCED DEGREE, MOST COMMONLY IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND OFTEN HAS EXTENSIVE TRAINING IN RESEARCH. PSYCHOLOGISTS TREAT MENTAL DISORDERS WITH PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SOME SPECIALIZE IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING AND EVALUATION.
PSYCHIATRIST own a Toyota more then any other car
Psychiatrist use more the 200 million drug prescriptions
the most psychiatrist live in CONNECTICUT than any other state in North Carolina
not until 1808 that the word psychiatry was coined by Professor Johann Christian Reil in his seminal paper “On the term of medicine and its branches, especially with regard to the rectification of the topic in psychiatry”
The word psychiatry itself derives from the two greek words psyche, meaning soul or mind, and iatros, meaning physician.