psychiatrist
(ps-, saɪˈkaɪətrɪst)
[f. psychiatry + -ist.]
A practitioner of psychiatry; also, a student or professor of psychiatry.
| 1890 in Cent. Dict. 1897 Urquhart in Dict. Nat. Biog. LII. 320/2 It recalled..the attention of psychiatrists to the physical basis of mental aberration. 1922 R. S. Woodworth Psychology i. 16 According to the psychiatrists, mental disturbance is primarily an affair of emotion and desire rather than of intellect. 1931 F. L. Allen Only Yesterday viii. 198 Psychiatrists were installed in business houses to hire and fire employées. 1959 Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 1/3 There would be psychiatrists, social psychologists, and penologists on the staff so that they could approach the problem of crime from all points of view. 1971 Lancet 29 May 1124/1 A radiologist to the N.H.S. is medical and a radiographer non-medical, and similarly with..psychiatrist and psychologist, ophthalmologist and optician. |