Synonyms for psychiatrist
psy·chi·a·trist

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1. psychiatrist, head-shrinker, shrinknoun

   a physician who specializes in psychiatry

   Synonyms:
   shrink, head-shrinker, headhunter

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1. List of paraphrases for "psychiatrist":

   shrink, therapist, psychologist, psychiatry

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1. Ronnie Shakes:

   After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'

2. Samuel Goldwyn:

   Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

3. Joaquin Phoenix:

   The attraction to make this film and this character was that we were going to approach it in our own way so for me I didn't refer to any past creations of the character, i did identify Arthur as a particular personality but then I also wanted the freedom to create something that wasn't identifiable. This is a fictional character and I didn't want a psychiatrist to be able to identify the kind of person he was.

4. Hannah Peters/Getty Images Robertson:

   When I got depressed, I started talking to a psychiatrist in the high-performance sports system. And he helped me through a lot of things, i wanted to die, I did n’t want to live anymore.

5. Muriel Spark:

   One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.