English > psychiatrist: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A physician who specializes in psychiatry. |
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| Synonyms | head-shrinker, shrink |
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| Instances | Horney, Karen Horney, Karen Danielsen Horney | United States psychiatrist (1885-1952) |
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| Jaspers, Karl Jaspers, Karl Theodor Jaspers | German psychiatrist (1883-1969) |
| Menninger, Charles Menninger, Charles Frederick Menninger | United States psychiatrist who with his sons founded a famous psychiatric clinic in Topeka (1862-1953) |
| Menninger, Karl Menninger, Karl Augustus Menninger | United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990) |
| Menninger, William Menninger, William Claire Menninger | United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1899-1966) |
| Sullivan, Harry Stack Sullivan | United States psychiatrist (1892-1949) |
| Narrower | alienist | A psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness |
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| analyst, psychoanalyst | A licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis |
| Broader | specialist, medical specialist | practices one branch of medicine |
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| Spanish | loquero, psiquiatra, siquiatra |
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| Catalan | psiquiatra, psiquiatre |
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| Nouns | psychiatry | the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders |
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