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psychologist

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noun

  1. a scientist trained in psychology

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Other women psychologists studied infant-mother attachment, memory and the brain, deinstitutionalized psychiatric patients, and developmental psychology.

Furthermore, developmental psychologists found evidence that self-recognition correlates with empathy.

There is no known cure for hebephilia and no effective initial screening mechanism, says psychologist James Cantor, who leads a team of researchers from Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and other hospitals in studying the role of the brain in causing pedophilia and hebephilia.

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psychiatrist

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noun

  1. a physician who specializes in psychiatry

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He appears, at first sight, to be very like his urbane television character, the radio psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane.

He was rushed to hospital where doctors and a psychiatrist decided the life-saving liver operation was in his best interests.

As long there's no good protocolled way of diagnosing autism, done by well trained teams of psychologists and psychiatrists what is called autism can be anything.

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