Psychiatrists, just like all people, are human. It's important to remember that. Just like most professions, psychiatry will have its share of people who are not the best of people. I think the thing that is majorly different between psychiatry and psychology is that the former tends to see less of the patients, which often results in them not seeing them as humans... but rather, as a diagnosis and a prescription. Psychologists, on the other hand, tend to interact with patients more. And can form an opinion of them based on the person, not the diagnosis. Of course, I am speaking merely from my own experience - having been through a few psychiatrists and psychologists. Someone else may have a different experience. Most of the time, the diagnoses I received that seemed the most bizarre and farfetched were from... psychiatrists. And heaven forbid I questioned them. Then I was even more mentally ill in their eyes. Because insight is not something we can have... But not all psychiatrists are so out of touch with their patients. I am sure there are many out there who do care, and got into the profession because they do. I have found, though, that it is a field where it is easy to see the patient as a diagnosis.