What is the job of a psychiatrist? What do they do?
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the main function of the psychiatrist is to give you a psychiatric diagnosis (if you have a disorder) and prescribe medication and to monitor the medication.
They are medical doctors that specialize in psychology. Their number one function is to diagnose patients and provide psychiatric medications that provide relief for the disorder.
They try to help you to understand the reasons behind your actions or someone elses actions so that you can find balance and harmony in your life..
Honestly if you find a good one that will actually listen to you they provide sound advice and prescribe meds only if necessary to help treat whatever mental or emotional problem you have but most of them will just rish through the session and hear key words like depression, paranoid thoughts, anger issues and your overloaded with meds and in the matter of just maybe 15-20 minutes labeled as bipolar.
So to answer your question most of them are LEGAL drug pushers!
You're getting a lot of bad answers here. A psychiatrist is an expert in *treating* mental disorders with MEDICINES. They do not offer counselling, they do not offer talk therapies, and they are not psychologists.
Psychologists are the ones who give you talk therapies or practices that help mental disorders with *or without* medicine.
So, a psychiatrist is likely to ask you questions just as your doctor would, such as, how have you been feeling; do you hear voices in your head; do you ever feel urges to hurt yourself, etc.? This is so that he can diagnose any illness that he might be able to treat *with tablets*. He may *refer* you to a counsellor or emotional therapist (a psychologist/psychotherapist) whether or not he prescribes medication.
Psychiatrists exist in case a person needs extra, or emergency, help for mental disorders and because psychologists are not allowed to prescribe medicines because they don't have the required *medical* training. By the same token, psychiatrists have not had the special training that psychologists have, so cannot the psychologists' job.
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