How to Use psychiatrist in a Sentence

psychiatrist

noun
Definition of psychiatristnext
  • But the psychiatrist, Dr. Ryan Hall, wasn’t able to shed much light on the pastor’s health.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2023
  • One of the men had just been cleared from suicide watch by a psychiatrist.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • But the clinic hadn’t had a full-time, on-site psychiatrist in five years.
    — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
  • As a friend of mine says, a round of golf is cheaper than seeing a psychiatrist.
    — WSJ, 10 July 2023
  • But Blackwell denied the abuse to a psychiatrist, who cleared him to return to ministry.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The busy public hospital in the Parisian suburb of Clichy has one psychiatrist on staff.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Why would a psychiatrist or an ob-gyn physician or nurse call the police to report a patient for their thoughts?
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The group worked with a local psychiatrist to start a peer support network called The Buddy Program.
    — Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2024
  • It was founded by the late Eyad el-Sarraj, who was a human-rights activist and psychiatrist.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2024
  • In this novel, a psychiatrist decides his daily decisions will be ruled by a roll of the dice.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 22 May 2023
  • That summer, a psychiatrist on the East Coast was hired to do virtual visits on a part-time basis.
    — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The most prominent psychiatrists in Europe came to Norway to study Quisling’s mind, and try to find out if there was something wrong about him.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Email address: At the time of the shootings, the clinic hadn’t had a full-time, on-site psychiatrist in five years, and many of the telehealth providers had recently stopped seeing Chico patients.
    — ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Bruce Alan Kehr, M.D., an award-winning psychiatrist who's been in practice for 40 years, has seen it all throughout his career.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Thing is, that’s what psychiatrists like me are already doing.
    — Gregory Scott Brown, Men's Health, 24 July 2023
  • Solly: Darrow had asked a bunch of psychiatrists to perform these analyses of the two teenagers over several weeks.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
  • Former psychiatrist Ann Heaslett, 60, who aims to run the six major world marathons in her retirement, feels exactly the same way.
    — Stacey Lastoe, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Throughout the show, Melfi and Tony developed a close bond; the psychiatrist was aware of his crimes as a mobster but continued to meet with him as a therapist.
    — Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 28 Sep. 2024
  • One in four never met with a psychiatrist or a psychiatric nurse for treatment.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, long before Covid, 78% of psychiatrists had high levels of burnout, and more than 16% had major depression.
    — Jessica Gold, STAT, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Ralph is hospitalised by his parents, on the advice of Dr. Chirinos, a very old-school psychiatrist.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Within the first few weeks of listing her home, Hammond, a psychiatrist, earned enough to cover her mortgage payment that month.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 29 July 2024
  • Their decision comes even as psychiatrists have said the 78-year-old Sirhan would likely not be a danger to anyone anymore.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Bardo explained to the psychiatrist that he’d been provoked.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • Then we were warned that the friend, despite being a licensed psychiatrist, has a deathly and obsessive terror of dogs.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Grammar was another face for the series as Frasier Crane, the radio psychiatrist who went on to have his own spinoff, Frasier.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Scott Leibowitz joined the Boston clinic as a psychiatrist in training a year later.
    — New York Times, 15 June 2022
  • Human brain waves were first recorded by the German psychiatrist Hans Berger in 1924.
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Only this time, instead of a psychiatrist at a lonely psychiatric hospital, the cursed victim is the biggest pop star in the world.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Oliver’s manager comes to the flat, accompanied by Oliver’s psychiatrist, a doctor and a lawyer.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024

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