psychiatrist

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  • Noun:
    a physician who specializes in psychiatry

Word Origin

psychiatrist (n.)
1875, from psychiatry + -ist.A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies Bergère and looks at the audience. [Anglican Bishop Mervyn Stockwood, 1961] An older name was mad-doctor (1703); also psychiater "expert in mental diseases" (1852), from Greek psyche + iatros. Also see alienist.

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