psychiatrist

What it means

1. A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.

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

   2000 May 28, Peter Wolson, “A World of Psychophobia”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 10 May 2025

   2 more examples

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

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

   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.

   2009 July 19, Lizette Alvarez, “Whee! Also, There’s a Net”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms: psychiater

In a sentence

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

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

Where it comes from

1. Frenchpsych-
2. Frenchpsychiatre
3. Frenchpsychiatrie
4. Englishpsychiatry
5. Englishpsychiatrist

From psychiatry + -ist.