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Anonymous
Psychologists are doctors that help people work out some emotional and
logical problems and develop more and better ways to do that. They are
like managers and advisers.
Psychiatrists are highly trained experts in the medical side of the field who
went years further in medical training and are authorized to use drugs and
other medical procedures to help people with complex neurological problems
that psychologists and their staff cannot handle. They are the top of the field
and if they interact with psychologists at all it’s mostly to employ them as
researchers and managers of support staff.
Psychotherapists are either of those two or are the people who work under
their supervision. It’s a generic term that covers everybody in the field.
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