Psychologist

A psychologist is a practitioner of psychology.

Psychology is now considered a separate field from psychiatry, and a psychologist is not ordinarily a medical doctor and hence is unable to prescribe psychiatric medications.

Psychology is such a wide field that practitioners often specialise in one particular area

• child psychologists (who specialise in working with children and adolescents)
• clinical psychologists
• marriage counsellors
• family therapists etc.

Famous psychologists:

• Alfred Binet
• Nathaniel Branden
• Sigmund Freud (a medical doctor, pioneer of psychoanalysis)
• Kay Redfield Jamison
• Carl Jung (a medical doctor, pioneer of analytical psychology)
• Stanley Milgram
• Samuel Renshaw
• Carl Rogers
• Otto Rank
• B.F. Skinner
• please add to this list