Psychiatry deals with prevention, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of mental illness. A psychiatrist diagnoses and treats those with mental and emotional disorders such as schizophrenia, addictions, mood and anxiety disorders, substance-abuse disorders, and sexual and adjustment disorders. After assessment, the psychiatrist can diagnose, treat and manage an illness or problem by medication or various forms of psychotherapy. A psychiatrist is qualified to order diagnostic laboratory tests and to prescribe medications, evaluate and treat psychologic and interpersonal problems, and to intervene with families who are coping with stress, crises and other problems.

Physicians in this specialty treat patients suffering from numerous diseases and illnesses, but some of the most common are attention deficit hyperactive, learning disabilities, co-dependency, attention deficit disorder, clinical depression, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, phobias, mania, schizophrenia, claustrophobia, paranoia, agoraphobia, psychosis, social anxiety disorder, hallucination, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and panic attacks.

Once properly diagnosed, practitioners can perform numerous procedures on patients including marital therapy, marital counseling, adolescent counseling, child counseling, stress management, hypnosis, family therapy, shock treatment, relaxation therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, and psychiatric therapy.

To diagnose patients with possible illnesses and diseases, specialists will often perform one of many tests including psychiatric evaluation, intelligence tests, personality tests, add/adhd tests, depression tests, stress tests, abuse tests, psychiatric exam, sexual health tests, and addictions tests.

Doctor density varies by specialty and location. Connecticut has 815 practicing psychiatrists. Broken out by city, psychiatry doctor density in Ansonia is 2, in Avon is 11, in Bethany is 2, in Bethlehem is 1, in Bloomfield is 4, in Branford is 7, in Bridgeport is 21, in Bristol is 13, in Brookfield is 9, in Brooklyn is 1, in Canton is 1, in Cheshire is 5, in Chester is 1, in Clinton is 1, in Colchester is 3, in Cromwell is 2, in Danbury is 32, in Darien is 8, in Dayville is 2, in Derby is 2, in East Hartford is 10, in East Lyme is 2, in Enfield is 21, in Essex is 5, in Fairfield is 14, in Farmington is 41, in Gales Ferry is 1, in Glastonbury is 18, in Greenwich is 16, in Groton is 5, in Guilford is 12, in Hamden is 29, in Harford is 1, in Hartford is 99, in Higganum is 2, in Ivoryton is 1, in Kensington is 2, in Litchfield is 2, in Madison is 6, in Mansfield Center is 10, in Meriden is 12, in Middlebury is 3, in Middletown is 50, in Milford is 13, in Monroe is 1, in Mystic is 1, in New Britain is 12, in New Canaan is 10, in New Fairfield is 1, in New Haven is 155, in New London is 19, in New Milford is 6, in Newington is 11, in Newtown is 2, in North Haven is 2, in North Stonington is 1, in Norwalk is 16, in Norwich is 23, in Old Greenwich is 1, in Old Lyme is 1, in Old Saybrook is 1, in Orange is 4, in Oxford is 1, in Plainville is 9, in Pomfret Center is 1, in Portland is 5, in Prospect is 1, in Putnam is 7, in Ridgefield is 5, in Simsbury is 3, in Somers is 1, in South Windsor is 3, in Southbury is 3, in Southington is 5, in Southport is 2, in Stafford is 3, in Stafford Springs is 10, in Stamford is 20, in Stonington is 5, in Stratford is 4, in Tolland is 1, in Torrington is 14, in Trumbull is 10, in Uncasville is 1, in University Of Ct Health is 3, in Vernon is 3, in Wallingford is 6, in Waterbury is 35, in Waterford is 4, in Watertown is 1, in West Haven is 20, in West Redding is 1, in Weston is 6, in Westport is 22, in Wethersfield is 5, in Willimantic is 8, in Wilton is 5, in Winsted is 2, in Woodbridge is 15, and in Woodbury is 2.

This New England state is one of the original 13 states; Connecticut’s capital is Hartford and its population is 3,510,297. This state is steeped in history. Visit the past at the Nathan Hale Homestead near New London, or Yale University in New Haven. Tour the home of Mark Twain, the New England Air Museum, or the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk. Explore a historic tobacco farming area, do some hiking and biking, or visit the numerous antique shops or lighthouses in the eastern coastal area.

According to 2005 Census estimates, Connecticut has a population of 3,510,297. Of this population, 812,182 are under the age of 18 and 472,089 are at or above the age of 65.