What is the abbreviation for a psychiatrist?

There are no shortenings of psychiatrist, but slang for Psychiatrist can be "Shrink", and "Quack". Those who dislike the term Psychiatrist often say head-doctor, and psychiatrists themselves generally refer to themselves by their fields, i.e. Clinical Psychologist (which is a psychiatrist,) Forensic Psychologist, Child Psyschologist, Criminal Psychologist, etc.

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"Psych." can be an abbreviation for either profession, as well as the Words "psychiatry" and "psychology", though not in formal usage.

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5/16/10 - I'm a psychiatrist. I'm not sure how common this is, but in my training we abbreviated "psychiatry," "psychiatric," and "psychiatrist" with the Greek letter psi (pronounced like "sigh"). If you go to wikipedia and type "psi" there's an image of capital psi and lowercase psi. Handwritten, they end up looking the same and much like Indiana University's symbol.

- RM