ABSTRACT
A psychiatrist is a medical doctor and is licensed to prescribe drugs. Psychiatrists very often recommend a combination of drugs and cognitive behavioural therapy. A clinical psychologist might simply diagnose, or they may also work therapeutically. The psychiatric drugs are mainly used to treat symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking, that is, the symptoms of schizophrenia and paranoid psychosis. These can loosely be divided into two groups: antipsychotics and antidepressants. Psychotherapy with neurotic people generally has a slightly different aim to psychotherapy with psychotic people, although it basically involves discussing many of the same sorts of subjects. Early antipsychotics had quite serious side effects such as diabetes, muscle spasms, depleted immune system, and sexual dysfunction. Antipsychotics are sometimes prescribed to non-psychotic patients, and antidepressants may be used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia, and panic attacks, even when the person is not at all depressed.
