Psychologist
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A psychologist is a practitioner of psychology.
Psychology is now considered a separate field from psychiatry, and a psychologist is not ordinarily a medical doctor and hence is unable to prescribe psychiatric medications.
Psychology is such a wide field that practitioners often specialise in one particular area
- child psychologists (who specialise in working with children and adolescents)
- clinical psychologists
- marriage counsellors
- family therapists etc.
See the list of psychologists
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Psychologist" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychologist, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
