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  • noun Plural form of psychiatrist.

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  • Tonight, a scientologist explains why they call psychiatrists frauds.

    CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2005 2005

  • Tonight, a Scientologist explains why they call psychiatrists frauds.

    CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2005 2005

  • And the company actually would pay big name psychiatrists a thousand dollars or $2,000 to have their names put on these journal articles in order to lend them some kind of scientific credibility.

    A Psychiatrist's Prescription For His Profession 2010

  • Derek BLADES, It is wrong to call psychiatrists frauds.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • L. Ron Hubbard had a visceral hatred of psychiatrists, which is now shared throughout the entire Scientology organization (remember Tom Cruise and Brooke Shields battling it out over antidepressants?).

    Another eugenics movie 2007

  • L. Ron Hubbard had a visceral hatred of psychiatrists, which is now shared throughout the entire Scientology organization (remember Tom Cruise and Brooke Shields battling it out over antidepressants?).

    Another eugenics movie 2007

  • Hence, troubling multi-organ symptoms may go undiagnosed, and patients may be referred to psychiatrists as a last resort.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • Scientology literature blatantly calls psychiatrists witchdoctors and shamans and psychiatry a cult.

    The art of Scientology 2003

  • COHEN: Dr. Koplewicz, Renee mentioned something I've heard from many child psychologists and psychiatrists, which is that the insurance company will pay for the medicine, but they won't pay for the therapy or they won't pay for very much.

    CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2003 2003

  • For instance, when faced with patients who report severe and persistent headaches, established medical procedure requires the physician to test first for organic causes e.g., order a brain scan, and only after the search for those is exhausted are patients to be referred to psychiatrists.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

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