Psychiatry

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A cheap psychiatrist.

Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, study, prevention and treatment of mental disorders in humans and, like other fields of science, is not safe from unfounded criticism or woo. It is particularly hated by scientologists, who refrain from taking psychiatric drugs, and is targeted by conspiracy theories from said cult religion.

Interesting enough, early psychiatry involved purging Satan from patients.

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