How to Use psychiatrist in a Sentence

psychiatrist

noun
  • One of the men had just been cleared from suicide watch by a psychiatrist.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Biel is a child psychiatrist who has worked in kids’ mental health for more than two decades.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • But the clinic hadn’t had a full-time, on-site psychiatrist in five years.
    — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Iris has a grief session with a psychiatrist that spells out what doesn’t need to be spelled out.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Yeah, and Gary, the psychiatrist, is a good guy.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2026
  • As a friend of mine says, a round of golf is cheaper than seeing a psychiatrist.
    — WSJ, 10 July 2023
  • She was seen by a psychiatrist, who placed her on a full slate of the sorts of drugs that had helped her before.
    — Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Lilian said that a friend’s sister-in-law worked as a psychiatrist for the state prison.
    — Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • This doesn’t mean your psychiatrist will start handing out arthritis meds soon.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 17 June 2026
  • Thing is, that’s what psychiatrists like me are already doing.
    — Gregory Scott Brown, Men's Health, 24 July 2023
  • Jim believes that psychiatrists need to take off their white coats and that care should consist much more of peer experts.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
  • In turn, a judge will order a psychiatrist to evaluate the client.
    — Eva Wen, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
  • But to him, this doesn’t mean that psychiatrists should refrain from making life-or-death judgments.
    — Charles Lane, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2026
  • David also happens to be the son of Sam’s psychiatrist, who puts him up for the job in the first place.
    — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Yes, that one, Lilian confirmed, and said that the psychiatrist seemed to have a dim view of her clients.
    — Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Why would a psychiatrist or an ob-gyn physician or nurse call the police to report a patient for their thoughts?
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • So too were regular check-ins with a psychiatrist and doctor.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Then there were the asylum psychiatrists.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • One in four never met with a psychiatrist or a psychiatric nurse for treatment.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The woman now has trouble sleeping, while her son sees a psychiatrist to process what happened that night.
    — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 13 May 2026
  • An orderly walked past the room where my psychiatrist and I were sitting, and then walked past again.
    — Miriam Toews september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In this novel, a psychiatrist decides his daily decisions will be ruled by a roll of the dice.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 22 May 2023
  • Some of his peers found his work to be more that of a reporter and advocate than that of a psychiatrist or scientist.
    — ABC News, 7 June 2026
  • But it was spoken about with his social worker and his psychiatrist, so everyone was aware.
    — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • But Blackwell denied the abuse to a psychiatrist, who cleared him to return to ministry.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The court also ordered her to visit with a psychiatrist twice a month and a psychologist once a week.
    — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 4 May 2026
  • Smile stars Sosie Bacon as a psychiatrist haunted by an eerie presence.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Ramirez allegedly used a homemade weapon in the attack, which was recovered by a prison guard who came to the psychiatrist’s aid.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The staff psychiatrist also helps train and advise other staff on treatment methods.
    — Sacbee.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The number of patients is capped by the number of hours that a psychiatrist can muster on a weekly and annual basis.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025

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