Is your wife a psychiatric nurse, because neither AMA has never heard of
her?


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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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A private therapy setting is different. Usually, the psychiatrist,
working with licensed folk, provides the therapy, and the latter
usually
work with family members, and family issues. But there really are no
rules on how a practice should be run, other than the legal and
ethical
issues.

Each doctor may operate his practice differently, but I don't think
you
will
find one psychiatrist who calls himself a therapist so his patients
will
feel better about talking to them. It is funny watching you squirm
when
you
are caught at your fabrications.




Jeez....you love blanket statements, don't you? Right across the hall
from
me is a psychiatrist. He comes over for lunch sometimes, and he's gone
fishing with me. He sometimes calls himself and other psychiatrists
"therapists". It refers to whatever practitioner is doing the therapy,
whether it be a psychiatrist, a psychologist or a social worker. Psych
literature often uses "therapist" as a general term to cover all three
practitioners, because a client may end up seeing any of the three
types.
When my ex-wife and I were looking for a marriage counselor, we asked
friends for recommendations. Among the list we came up with were all
three
types of therapists.


There are several other categories of licensed practitioners who provide
therapy, and these include "mental health counselors," and "psychiatric
nurses." My wife says the latter seem to make especially good counselors.