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You're confusing psychologists and psychiatrists, the two have little association with each other. Psychiatrists carry the prescription pad and diagnose disease

You're confusing psychologists and psychiatrists, the two have little association with each other. Psychiatrists carry the prescription pad and diagnose diseases, psychologists typically deal with functionality issues and work with their patients through the solutions. Psychologists typically diagnose behavior issues, they're not medically trained whatsoever and rarely tackle conditions as a "disease". People with phobias and addictions are typically best served by psychologists as a psychiatrist usually throws pills at the situation and treats nothing. I'm not disagreeing with your point, just psychologist should be substituted for psychiatrists as they control the DSM-V.

neurotech1 17y ago
I was making a reference to the way psychologists interact with and diagnose patients, not who controls the DSM. To be completely accurate, the DSM-V task force is made up of both psychiatrists and psychologists, although it comes under the umbrella of the American Psychiatric Association. I work with both psychologists and psychiatrists in my job, (I know the difference) and on average, the general attitude towards patients, especially ASD patients seems to very condescending and clueless. On a slightly related topic, a lot of psychiatrists seem to forget the basics of medicine, shouldn't be allowed to call themselves MD. They should have their own category, like Doctor of Psychiatry, not Doctor of Medicine