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psychopharmacologist en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ) Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der. English psycho- Ancient Greek φάρμᾰκον (phármăkon)der. English pharmaco- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos Proto-Hellenic *lógos Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy English pharmacology English psychopharmacology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English psychopharmacologist From psychopharmacology + -ist.

Meanings

1. A person involved in psychopharmacology.
   • But a psychopharmacologist felt his physical symptoms were so extreme that unless he tamped those down, he couldn’t benefit from other coping techniques, according to Stossel. 2014 January 28, Kat Kinsman, “10 things we learned about surviving anxiety”, in CNN:
   • The psychopharmacologist (I like to call his office the Fifth Avenue Crack House, because all he really does is write prescriptions and hand out pills) told me I shouldn't. 1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 4:
   • Even medical schools seem to have submitted to psychophobia by training psychiatrists almost exclusively as psychopharmacologists instead of as psychotherapists. 2000 May 28, Peter Wolson, “A World of Psychophobia”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 10 May 2025:

Forms

Translations (14)

it psicofarmacologo (person involved in psychopharmacology) · ar طبيب نفساني (person involved in psychopharmacology) · fr psychopharmacologue (person involved in psychopharmacology) · it psicofarmacologa (person involved in psychopharmacology) · ja 精神薬理学者 (person involved in psychopharmacology) · ru психофармако́лог (person involved in psychopharmacology) · sh psihofarmakolog (person involved in psychopharmacology) · es psicofarmacologa (person involved in psychopharmacology) · cs psychofarmakolog (person involved in psychopharmacology) · cmn 心理药师 (person involved in psychopharmacology) · co psicofarmacologu (person involved in psychopharmacology) · pt psicofarmacologista (person involved in psychopharmacology) · de Psychopharmakologe (person involved in psychopharmacology) · es psicofarmacologa (person involved in psychopharmacology)