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How to use psychiatrist in a sentence

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Psychiatrist means a medical doctor specializing in psychiatry. Example: “The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.”

Examples of psychiatrist by meaning

nounA medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.

  • Says Colonel Thomas Murray, chief Army psychiatrist in South Viet Nam: “Some of our psychiatrists are the most improbable military guys: soft, flabby, unexercised.”1969 October 10, “Dividend from Viet Nam”, in Time
  • Even medical schools seem to have submitted to psychophobia by training psychiatrists almost exclusively as psychopharmacologists instead of as psychotherapists.2000 May 28, Peter Wolson, “A World of Psychophobia”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 10 May 2025
  • Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward.2009 July 19, Lizette Alvarez, “Whee! Also, There’s a Net”, in The New York Times

More sentences with psychiatrist

  • The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.From the entry count
  • My psychiatrist upped my guanfacine dose since ADHD symptoms have not gotten better.From the entry up
  • Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals counsel clients.From the entry counsel
  • The doctor may refer patients to a psychiatrist.From the entry refer
  • Kempf, a clinical psychiatrist who wished to identify a particular mental disorder related to homosexuality.2022, Loren Cannon, The Politicization of Trans Identity, page 99. From the entry trans panic defense
  • At that moment he was practicing one of his professions—that of geriatric psychiatrist.2020, Georgi Gospodinov, chapter 2, in Time Shelter, page 12. From the entry geriatric
  • Later on he was treated by the same psychiatrist with ataractic drugs.2013, Einar Kringlen, Heredity and Environment in the Functional Psychoses, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 180. From the entry ataractic
  • “Well, having three psychiatrists tell me I was nutballs contributed to the idea,” I said.2013, Michele Bardsley, Only Lycans Need Apply, Signet Eclipse, →ISBN. From the entry nutballs
  • The old psychiatrists of Eastern Europe also included in their taxonomy "debilism" or "salon debils".2006, Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Political Ponerology, Afterword, p. 221-222. From the entry debilism
  • I am not a psychiatrist -- I am a psychiatric amateur (amateuse); a mere hobbyist.1999 February 25, quondam, “Boarding school for Beatrice and Eugenie?”, in alt.gossip.royalty (Usenet). From the entry amateuse
  • Not exactly a thigh-slapper, but not terrible for a psychiatrist joke either.1980 September 29, Roger Rosenblatt, “The People's Analyst”, in Time, retrieved 18 Oct 2009. From the entry thigh-slapper
  • The most disdain is directed toward the “shrinks” or the “spooks,” as the psychiatrists are called.1975, Robert O. Pasnau, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, page 124. From the entry spook
  • Some people cannot stand knives, swords, bayonets, anything sharp; psychiatrists have a word for it: aichmophobia.1963, Robert Heinlein, Glory Road, Ch.1, at p.10. From the entry aichmophobia
  • The psychiatrists are getting beyond their depth when they begin computing feminine unhappiness.1935 August 23, Mrs. Walter Ferguson, “Being Unhappy”, in The Pittsburgh Press. From the entry barnumize
  • “That's your business, honeydoll, I'm not your psychiatrist.”2013, Stephen King, Doctor Sleep, page 27. From the entry honeydoll
  • It never hit home until Salem's wise and loving and occasionally-during-sweeps-months demon-possessed psychiatrist and her studly husband got the ax.2011, Celia Rivenbark, You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl. From the entry thoughty
  • But, as my psychiatrist says, when my ego and super ego kicked in, I became a balanced person.2010, Ruth Hamilton, Sugar and Spice, Sutton, Surrey: Severn House, →ISBN, page 216. From the entry unseat
  • Or was that the overempathic psychiatrist in me speaking?2008 April 1, Barbara Schildkrout, M.D., “Am I Looking at a Malignant Melanoma?”, in New York Times. From the entry overempathic
  • The sight gag had the psychiatrists roaring.2008 October, Paul Scott, “Was the Prozac revolution all in our heads?”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 146. From the entry sight gag
  • Psychiatrists, in such circumstances, may have followed the precedence of their spiritual forebears—religious confessors—in respecting the privacy of their patients.2004, Paul Jackson, chapter 3, in One of the Boys: Homosexuality in the Military during World War II, Montreal and Kingston…. From the entry precedence
  • Are psychiatrists by nature evil frankensteinian doctors?1998 February 19, Magnulus, “Why Mental Illness is a Myth. A Primer.”, in alt.support.survivors.prozac (Usenet). From the entry frankensteinian doctor
  • In addition to these Tourettic surgeons, I now know of three Tourettic internists, two Tourettic neurologists, but only one Tourettic psychiatrist.1995, Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales. From the entry Tourettic
  • And the psychiatrist himself did not feel totally devoid of some symptoms of molysmophobia, the obsessive fear of contagion.1995, Charles R. Howell, Ancestral House, page 488. From the entry molysmophobia
  • The psychiatrist is the bailee of the coat and is responsible for the security of property brought to his office.1982, Robert I. Simon, “Case 11: The Psychiatrist and the Patient Bearing Gifts”, in Psychiatric Interventions and Malpractice: A Primer…. From the entry sometimes a cigar is a cigar
  • The psychiatrist should provide a secure area for patients’ belongings.1982, Robert I. Simon, “Case 11: The Psychiatrist and the Patient Bearing Gifts”, in Psychiatric Interventions and Malpractice: A Primer…. From the entry sometimes a cigar is a cigar
  • Lewis Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, by the White House “plumbers.”1979, United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Subcommittee on Legislation, Espionage Laws and Leaks…. From the entry plumber
  • Buddhaic religion is of mounting interest to psychiatrists.1957, American Buddhist, page 9. From the entry Buddhaic
  • Her problem may be difficult enough even for the psychiatrist.1931, The Public Health Nurse 1931-01: Volume 23, Issue 1, page 24. From the entry overcharged
  • Psychiatrists say that for many people who have been put through the wringer over the past decade, the climate extremes are one crisis too many.2023 September 16, Jason Horowitz, “How Do We Feel About Global Warming? It’s Called Eco-Anxiety.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry put through the wringer
  • As my psychiatrist, I think you are obliged to blame my parents for refusing to stop shaboinking long enough to comfort their youngest son.2005, Mark Frye, School Shooter: In His Own Words, New York, N.Y. […]: iUniverse, Inc., page 83. From the entry shaboink
  • The quality of psychiatrists varies widely.2004, Richard, “pdocs”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet). From the entry pdoc
  • Perhaps even more disturbing than the professionals’ failure to discover their pseudopatients’ “sanity,” the psychiatrists interpreted their “normal” behaviors as confirming the initial diagnoses.1997, Nancy Carrick, Lawrence Finsen, “Evaluating Arguments II: Inductive Reasoning”, in The Persuasive Pen: An Integrated Approach to…. From the entry pseudopatient
  • A decade ago most psychiatrists would have been puzzled to find a chapter on dysthymia in a book about severe depressive disorders.1994, John C. Markowitz, James H. Kocsis, “Chapter 9: Dysthymia”, in Leon Grunhaus, John F. Greden, editors, Severe Depressive Disorders…. From the entry dysthymia
  • Psychiatrists are trained to try to impose the responsibility for a patient’s problem on the patient coself, rather than on cos environment.1973, Michael Glenn, Richard Kunnes, Repression or Revolution?: Therapy in the United States Today, Harper Colophon Books, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry cos
  • A psychiatrist has been held liable for consequent damages following the impartment of his diagnosis or of confidential information gained during treatment to third parties.1973, Donald J. Dawidoff, chapter 3, in The Malpractice of Psychiatrists, Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, pages 33–34. From the entry impartment
  • They come from very different fields, George is an epidemiologist and David a psychiatrist, but both fields can help us understand the efficacy and safety of drug treatments.2015 July 31, Suzi Gage, “The Drugs Work: George Davey Smith and David Nutt discuss statins and SSRIs”, in The Guardian. From the entry sensationalisation
  • Later, she'd tell psychiatrist Gwen Levitt she was hoping to commit what the police call "copicide," in which a suicidal person gets the police to shoot him or her.1999, E. J. Montini, "Prosecuting Mentally Ill Is Insane", The Arizona Republic, 20 June 1999 (reprinted in the Observer-Reporter, 4 July…. From the entry copicide

Meaning of psychiatrist

  1. noun A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.

Full definition of psychiatrist

Questions about psychiatrist in a sentence

How do you use psychiatrist in a sentence?
Psychiatrist is used as a noun. For example: “The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.”
What is a short sentence with psychiatrist?
“The quality of psychiatrists varies widely.”
What does psychiatrist mean?
Psychiatrist means a medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.

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