• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    A psychologist can a psychiatrist can’t.

    A psychologist is a proper medical degree. People confuse the two terms and use them interchangeably though.

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      A psychiatrist is a medical professional in my country, while a psichologist is a therapist with no license to recommend or prescribe medication.

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      In the US, those terms are reversed; a psychiatrist is a medical doctor and a psychologist is not.

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        Germany handles it the same way as the USA in this case.