Psychiater
Psychiater est medicus qui callet in psychiatria, disciplina medicinae se dedita ad diagnosis, prohibitionem, indagationem curationem perturbationium mentis. Psychologo differente, psychiater est medicus autem et aestimare debet aegrum ad determinandum symptomas utrum morbi corporis aegritudinis an compositionem morbi et perturbationis an perturbationis purae psychiatricae. Ut pars aestimationis laboratoriorum, psychiater examinationem compotis animi et corporis, delineationem cerebri sicut tomographiam computationis, MRI, tomographiam positroni emissionis, examinationem sanguinis adhiberi potest. Psychiater medicinam praescribit, et psychotherapiam adhiberi potest. Tametsi maioritas vasta administrationem medicalem facit et psychologum aut artificium therapeutae delegat ad psychotherapiam hebdomadis vel per alternum mensem.
Bibliographia
recensere- American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Publishing.
- Frances, A., & First, M. (1999). Your Mental Health: A Layman's Guide to the Psychiatrist's Bible. New York: Scribner.
- Hafner, H. (2002). "Psychiatry as a profession". Nervenarzt 73 (1): 33–40
- Stout, E. (1993). From the Other Side of the Couch: Candid Conversations with Psychiatrists and Psychologists. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.