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Difderence between psychotherapist and psychatrist ?
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MD degree: Psychiatrists are md graduates from medical school (6 or 7 years in general) who entered after graduation in residencies to specialize for 4 or 5 extra years but already working as doctors with a state medical license (= can prescribe medications, for example). Psychotherapists are everyone, (including psychiatrists, psychologists and sometimes lcsw, etc) who provides "talking" therapies, regardless.
Answered 7/20/2014
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