Psychiatrist vs Alienist - What's the difference?
psychiatrist | alienist |
(obsolete) An expert in mental illness, especially with reference to legal ramifications.
* 1923 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Creeping Man’, Norton (2005), page 1644
* 1927 , , Arrow, 2008, page 72
(obsolete) A psychiatrist or psychologist.
As nouns the difference between psychiatrist and alienist
is that psychiatrist is (medicine) a medical doctor specializing in psychiatry while alienist is an expert in mental illness, especially with reference to legal ramifications.psychiatrist
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See also
* psychotherapist * shrink * head-shrinker * couch doctor English words prefixed with psych-alienist
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Noun
(en noun)- “Speaking as a medical man,” said I, “it appears to be a case for an alienist . The old gentleman's cerebral processes were disturbed by the love affair.”
- There was probably not an alienist in the land who, having listened so far, would not have sprung at George and held him down with one hand while with the other he signed the necessary certificate of lunacy. But Molly Waddington saw deeper into the matter.
