psychologist

[sahy-kol-uh-jist] /saɪˈkɒl ə dʒɪst/
noun
1.
a specialist in psychology.
2.
Philosophy. an adherent to or advocate of psychologism.
adjective
3.
Also, psychologistic. of or pertaining to psychologism.
Origin
1720-30; psycholog(y) + -ist
Can be confused
psychiatrist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, psychotherapist.
Examples from the web for psychologist
  • PhD, a school psychologist who also had a private practice.
  • It took school psychologist to find out why she was saying that, and it was all because of the dogs fighting.
  • There you go breaking your rule about being an arm-chair psychologist.
  • Each panel consists of three members-usually a lawyer or a judge, a doctor, and a psychologist or a social worker.
  • All in all, it seems that he was expected to bring the gifts of a psychologist to the task of a prophet.
  • So she asked their grandson, a psychologist, to bring the octogenarian to me for an evaluation.
  • We took him to see a psychologist last year, and the psychologist did all these tests and said he had.
  • He is neither a biologist nor a psychologist and his book takes him into some fairly technical literature.
Word Origin and History for psychologist
n.

1727; see psychology + -ist.

psychologist in Medicine

psychologist psy·chol·o·gist (sī-kŏl'ə-jĭst)
n.
A person trained and educated to perform psychological research, testing, and therapy.