Increasingly, psychiatrists are limiting their practices to psychopharmacology (prescribing medications), as opposed to previous practice in which a psychiatrist would provide traditional 50-minute psychotherapy sessions, of which psychopharmacology would be a part, but most of the consultation sessions consisted of "talk therapy."
Psykiatere begrænser i stigende grad deres praksis til psykofarmakologi (ordination af medicin) i modsætning til tidligere praksis, hvor en psykiater ville give de traditionelle 50-minutters psykoterapi sessioner, hvoraf psykofarmakologi ville være en del, men de fleste af høringssvarene sessioner bestod af "samtaleterapi".