Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Science psychiatry psychiatry Why would anyone in this world want to become a psychiatrist? To me I think that mental illnesses are important to this world. That’s because millions of Americans are affected by mental disorders daily. Psychiatry seems like an interesting career. Many people in this world will say that they don’t want to work with a mental patient, because they are afraid that the mental patient might try to harm them. It would be interesting to find out why many people are suffering from mental disorders. Psychiatry deals with mental disorders.Mental disorders may affect most aspects of a patient's life, including physical functioning, behavior, emotions, thought, perception, interpersonal relationships, sexuality, work, and play. Disorders are often seen as exaggerations of situations that healthy individuals experience. Examples of these disorders are: depression, frighten, envious, or angry. These examples can only be seen as mental disorders if they are continuous, excessive, and lead to self-destructive behavior. Mental disorders seriously affect a person’s ability to function and lead a happy life. Psychiatry is one of the frontier areas of medicine. Also, psychiatry is one of the oldest specialties. Psychiatry is the medical specialty that is concerned with the treatment, prevention of mental disorders, and the diagnosis. A psychiatrist is basically a physician that treats mental illnesses. Psychiatrist’s spend more than 48 hours a week at work. 60 percent of those 48 hours (28.8 hours) is spent with patients. Psychiatrist lead patients into a discussion about the patient’s life and feelings to get an understanding of what the patient goes through on a daily basis. Psychiatrist use psychoanalysis as treatment for patients. Psychoanalysis is specific method of investigating unconscious mental processes. Approximately 2.8 percent of the adult population suffer from severe mental illnesses. The starting salary for being a psychiatrist is $95,500 and goes to $305,000. Psychiatrist earn 0 percent to 30 percent bonuses. This information on salaries is for most psychiatrist around the United States. The required education for being a psychiatrist is basically like other medical fields. The reason for that is because with most medical fields you have to do residency. To become a psychiatrist you must have completed a bachelor’s degree plus a four-year residency program. Psychiatry requires a doctor’s degree, plus two - seven years of post-graduate specialty training. Of the four years for the residency program, out of them four years, four months will be spent in internal medicine, family medicine, and/ or pediatrics. Also, two more months are spent in neurology. Becoming a psychiatrist you also must have state licensure and a certification in psychiatry. Bibliography: none Word Count: 428
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