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Psychiatry

Psychiatry as a term was first coined by a German physician, Johann Christian Reil, and literally means ‘medical treatment of the soul.’ Psychiatrists complete medical school and then a four-year psychiatric residency. This training provides psychiatrists the advantage of thinking medically, as they think about and treat their patients. Psychiatrists prescribe medications, provide psychotherapy, order labs, neuroimaging and other tests[…]