I live in England and have been seeing psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists and the like since I was 12 and I am now 18. For many years I’ve struggled with clinical depression and anxiety and have been medicated for the past six years on various kinds of anti depressants and antipsychotics.
Recently I was diagnosed with Borderline [...]

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This question is directed at psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, counselors, general practitioners who deal with psych patients and also at social workers (I do recognize that the scope of the profession extends beyond this, so please don’t post irate answers in this regard).
I am asking purely out of personal interest, as I see a [...]

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Psychiatrists, not psychologists. Aren’t there psychiatrists specific for teens/adolescents, then there’s like clinical psychiatrists who work in mental hospitals, etc? I can’t find anything on google …
A list of the different jobs in psychiatry would be perfect. Thanks.
Well the reason i’m asking is because I’m writing a paper on it..

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Is online or E therapy the real deal with real licensed psychologists, mft etc? Can you trust E therapy like you would going to see one in person. I’ve noticed that there are some places offering online counseling and therapy and am just wondering if its the real deal and legal and all that.
I mean [...]

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Nice guys finish last? That’s so last century. New research shows that as humans have evolved, altruism has become an attractive quality in a man.
“The expansion of the human brain would have greatly increased the cost of raising children, so it would have been important for our ancestors to choose mates both willing and able [...]

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Been through years of therapy and medication. And, due to today’s economy, can’t afford to pay for regular psychologists. Can you recommend any online NLP sites for self help?

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How do their jobs differ?
I know that psychiatrist are medical doctors and psychologists have a PhD in psychology. It just seems like they both have the same type of job.

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I’m currently in the process of getting my BA-H in Psychology. I want to be a counselor in an addiction center. Not the person dealing with any medicine/ drug withdrawl or biological issues, more on the psychotherapy end of the spectrum. Finding out what happened, why it happened and how to help them get better. [...]

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what are the pros and cons of each?
like, I know that psychiatry you get to prescribe medicines, but it that basically one of the main differences? are psychiatrists just psychologists plus more?
I really want to work in psychology, but psychiatry has more advantages…do you have to get an Md in psychiatry to prescribe medicine? what [...]

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I want to be someone that studies how the human mind works, for example, body language. Or how people feel when they write. Etc.
I want to be a professional in this kind of field.
So what do psychologists do, and what do psychiatrists do, or am I totally off, and this career has a different name?

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I am a chiropractic student and I understand that my field has problems, such as the claims that vertebral subluxations exist or that applied kinesiology is useful in anyway. However, what I don’t understand is why chiropractors are often criticized (usually by other health care professionals) for things that every other health care field [...]

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During a therapy session, Ja shares her deepest thoughts with her psychologists. They explore her early childhood memories in ored to unlock the causes of her truobling thoughts and behaviors. This approach is related to the ______.
a) behavioral perspective
b)cognitive perspective
c) psychodynamic perspective
d) humanistic perspective
any help appreciated

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During a therapy session, Ja shares her deepest thoughts with her psychologists. They explore her early childhood memories in ored to unlock the causes of her truobling thoughts and behaviors. This approach is related to the ______.
a) behavioral perspective
b)cognitive perspective
c) psychodynamic perspective
d) humanistic perspective
any help appreciated

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Is psychology trying to provide a whole different type of care then psychiatry, does psychology nowadays feel adverse to psychiatry. Is the pharmaceutical litigation pending a scary thing to psychologists and why so or what is being done to prevent this.

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It’s sort of a self diagnoses. I’ve been asking around for years and doing research off and on and I came across the symptoms for Social Anxiety Disorder. I seem to have about 90% of the symptoms in such a severe way that it effects my daily life dramatically. I’m unable to see psychologists or [...]

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