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"A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies Bergère and looks at the audience." [Anglican Bishop Mervyn Stockwood, 1961] (Source)
Doctors who claim to be from different practices often perform the functions of a psychiatrist. There is currently no treatment common to psychiatrists except mind-altering drugs.
So, you hear of some strange medical problem, not immediately identified as related to psychiatry, but when you look further you often find it was a "doctor" pretending to be some practitioner in another form of health care, but when called on to treat a health problem which is obviously "mental" in origin, he will revert to prescribing the drugs used by psychiatrists. Invariably these drugs "succeed" by making the patient more in the state of "vegetable" and therefore apparently more calm.
This is not a good state to enter into.
Cick here for a story about a so-called Ayurvedic Doctor who was treating sex problems and made his patient so violent that the patient shot the doctor to death. It is not unusual.