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Where exactly is the line between the two drawn. I always got the impression that Psychiatry needed a medical degree while Psychology was similar but without on
by collyw 7y ago
Where exactly is the line between the two drawn. I always got the impression that Psychiatry needed a medical degree while Psychology was similar but without one.
I am pretty sure depression exists.
- jonathanlydall 7y agoMy mother is a psychologist (not in US though). Psychologists treat just by talking through problems while pschiatrists treat with the help of drugs (as well as also talking). While my mother has PhD, psychiatrists require a medical degree.
- bloak 7y agoI'm not so sure. It depends what you mean by "depression". If you mean exactly what's written in the DSM then you should be sceptical. See "Crazy like us" by Ethan Watters: a great book, only part of it about depression. Remember that when Freud was active the main psychiatric ailment was "hysteria". Did hysteria exist? Does it still exist? To what extent is mental illness socially determined?