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A doctor who listens to your childhood and bills you for the diagnosis.
means A medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental illness, often using both talk therapy and medication.
from Built from Greek psykhe, meaning 'soul' or 'breath of life' (the same root behind 'psyche' and 'psychology'), plus iatros, 'healer' or 'physician' — the same element in 'pediatrician' and 'podiatrist.' So the word literally means 'healer of the soul,' coined in the early 1800s as doctors began treating mental distress as a medical condition rather than a moral or spiritual failing.
- actual medical degree
- can prescribe drugs, unlike therapists
- freud's shadow
- field spent decades escaping the couch cliché
- real tools
- mostly medication management, not psychoanalysis
- short sessions
- often just 15 minutes for med checks