Heymom
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I've often found that psychiatrist are sought for diagnosis and medication....and the psychiatrist refers the patient to a psychologist or counselor for "talk therapy"
But it hasn't always been that way. As I keep repeating, I had a psychiatrist in the mid-1980's and he did talk therapy with me and did not prescribe medications. When the new antidepressants came online, psychiatrists gradually became less involved in talk therapy and more the medication overseers that they are now. It's a side point, but just to say at that time, Burke might have been doing some therapy even with a psychiatrist. Do we know if he had a psychologist as well?