Re: Emacs psychiatrist

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Bastien wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > Actually, it's not a psychiatrist (obviously: it doesn't prescribe any
> > > drug), just a psychoanalyst.
> > Well, that's incorrect I believe. Shouldn't it be
> >
> >   Actually, it's not a psychiatrist (obviously: it doesn't
> >   just prescribe some drug), it is a psychoanalyst.
>
> AFAIK there are more psychiatrists that are also psychoanalysts than
> psychoanalysts that are also psychiatrists.  So in most of the cases 
> the role of the psychiatrists-psychoanalyst is not to "just" prescribe
> drugs.

The condition to check would be if the are more psychiatrists that are 
also psychoanalysts then there are psychiatrists that are not also 
psychoanalysts.

And the answer to that seems quite obvious. Psychiatrits often have a 
much, much shorter education in psychology than most people would expect.

So I guess "just" prescribe is what happens in most cases.