On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:54:15 +0100, Matthias Warkus
<Warkus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>John Schilling schrieb:
>> But, Heinleinian cheap shots at "fuzzy subjects" notwithstanding,
>> psychology is a somewhat rigorous subject that even involves a bit
>> of math, and what Wildepad is doing here wouldn't cut it in even
>> the shoddiest college pyschiatry departments.
>Are psychology and psychiatry the same in America?
No. Crudely speaking, psychology is a scientific field aimed at studying
the human mind in general, whereas psychiatry is a medical art aimed at
fixing specific broken human minds. There's obviously a lot of overlap;
the psychiatric community has to to do a fair bit of mind-studying to
refine its art, and psychologists are often capable of and sometimes
allowed to directly assist people with mental difficulties. And in lay
circles, the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
One key discriminator, is that psychiatrists are actual medical doctors,
with everything that implies. They can prescribe powerful drugs, cut into
you with knives, whatever, if it will help fix your broken mind. If a
psychologist gets into that line of work, he's pretty much limited to
talking to you.
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