Mind people

[BUNNY]

What is the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist?

[Lindy Loo]

The dictionary says; Psychiatrist...Physicians who are trained to prescribe medicine and provide counseling to help people deal with psychological and emotional issues. Psychologist...An individual who is trained to provide professional counselling on psychological and emotional issues and may also specialize in areas such as marital counseling, relaxation therapy, stress management, or s*x therapy.

[mercury]

Take a look at this dude http://www.womenshealth.org/a/psychiatrist_differences.htm

[Sylday]

A crude way of putting it is that Psychologists are experts on the workings of the "normal" mind; whereas Psychiatrists deal more with the "sick" mind. For example, Psychologists might well carry out university research on everyday mental processes; but Psychiatrists are more likely to be found in hospitals and clinics.

[zgma]

I used to work for an organization that employed both psychiatrists and psychologists. In my experience, psychiatrists (trained in western medicine) are far more interested in prescribing drugs than in talk therapy, and the patients that go to them tend to have psychological illnesses based on chemical imbalances, which can be treated or managed with drugs. Psychologists' training is more about talk therapy and other theraputic methods that are not drug-based. In the organization I worked for, people would regularly see the psychologists for 1-hour sessions, and then see the psychiatrist for a 15 minute consultation, long enough to get a prescription.

[Gef]

You can get a degree in psychology but to be a psychiatrist you need a degree in Medicine.

[NoGood Boyo]

About �100 an hour.

[enigma]

A psychiatrist is a doctor who specialises in psychiatric care and has the power to administer medicine , whereas a psychologist gets to the root of the problem to determine the cause of the abnormal behaviour and to begin the counselling process through means which can include regression. A psychiatrist tends to treat the disorder with medicine whereas a psychologist looks for the underlying issues - that is the main difference.