"I want to thank....my psychologist!!!

[The-Joker]

OT: Shouldn't Artest be thanking his psychiatrist??? Isn't a psychologist not an MD, more of a scientist who studies the brain??

 

[Hopper]

Other way around. Traditionallly only M.D.'s, with further specialization in pyschology, have been referred to as "psychiatrists."

 

[RJF]

Is English your first language?

Shut up you ****ing midget!

 

[Duck Rodgers]

Shut up you ****ing midget!

Red, remember when you were the board's nice guy?

 

[Deleted member 95]

Still is. He can't hide it under his weak attempts at name calling. I like Red though. A lot.

 

[infection]

OT: Shouldn't Artest be thanking his psychiatrist??? Isn't a psychologist not an MD, more of a scientist who studies the brain??

Other way around. Traditionallly only M.D.'s, with further specialization in pyschology, have been referred to as "psychiatrists."

Correct, more or less. A psychiatrist is a physician (MD or DO) who completed four years of medical school followed by a four-year psychiatry residency. A psychologist is typically a doctoral-level degree (PhD or PsyD) and, in some states, a masters level psychologist can advertise as such. As far as a psychologist being "a scientist who studies the brain" this would not be entirely correct. A PhD level psychologist (but not a masters level nor a PsyD) would be a research-based degree with a clinical component. Their research, however, is in psychology rather than neuroscience, unless they went the neuropsychology route, which is still rather clinically focused than research-focused.

Sorry for the overload. Just wanting to emphasize that there's a pretty large difference between a psychiatrist and psychologist. And for the record, it was his psychiatrist he thanked.