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. Indiana has 534 practicing psychiatrists. Broken out by city, psychiatry doctor density in Anderson is 20, in Angola is 2, in Avon is 8, in Batesville is 3, in Bedford is 3, in Beech Grove is 2, in Bloomfield is 1, in Bloomington is 19, in Bluffton is 2, in Boonville is 1, in Brazil is 3, in Brookville is 2, in Carmel is 16, in Chesterton is 1, in Clinton is 2, in Columbia City is 2, in Columbus is 12, in Connersville is 1, in Crawfordsville is 1, in Crown Point is 4, in Danville is 3, in Decatur is 2, in Dyer is 7, in East Chicago is 12, in Elkhart is 15, in Elwood is 6, in Evansville is 34, in Fishers is 2, in Fort Wayne is 29, in Frankfort is 1, in Franklin is 1, in Gary is 4, in Goshen is 10, in Greencastle is 2, in Greenfield is 16, in Greensburg is 1, in Greenwood is 3, in Hammond is 11, in Hartford City is 1, in Highland is 3, in Huntington is 5, in Jasper is 4, in Jeffersonville is 30, in Kendallville is 1, in Kokomo is 18, in La Porte is 3, in Lafayette is 11, in Lawrenceburg is 4, in Lebanon is 5, in Linton is 1, in Logansport is 12, in Loogootee is 2, in Madison is 9, in Marion is 10, in Martinsville is 3, in Merrillville is 16, in Michigan City is 4, in Mishawaka is 4, in Monticello is 1, in Mooresville is 2, in Muncie is 10, in Munster is 15, in New Albany is 5, in New Castle is 3, in New Whiteland is 1, in Newburgh is 2, in Noblesville is 5, in North Vernon is 3, in Paoli is 1, in Pendleton is 2, in Petersburg is 2, in Plainfield is 3, in Plymouth is 6, in Princeton is 1, in Rensselaer is 1, in Richmond is 12, in Rising Sun is 2, in Rochester is 1, in Rockport is 1, in Rockville is 1, in Salem is 3, in Schererville is 1, in Sellersburg is 2, in Seymour is 3, in Shelbyville is 3, in South Bend is 26, in Spencer is 3, in Sullivan is 2, in Tell City is 1, in Terre Haute is 23, in Tipton is 2, in Valparaiso is 7, in Vincennes is 5, in Wabash is 4, in Warsaw is 9, in Washington is 3, in West Lafayette is 3, in Whiteland is 2, in Whiting is 1, and in Winchester is 1.

Indiana’s population is 6,271,973, and most of the state’s population is located in the north, near the Lake Michigan shoreline, and is part of the greater metro Chicago area. Indiana became a state in 1816, and boasts many historical sites and covered bridges, numerous state parks and forests, hunting and fishing, and a variety of golf courses. Centrally located Indianapolis is home to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, hosting the world-famous 500-mile auto race every year. This capital and largest city of Indiana also hosts a Civil War museum, a planetarium, and the Indiana Historical Society, among many other attractions.

According to 2005 Census estimates, Indiana has a population of 6,271,973. Of this population, 1,566,280 are under the age of 18 and 774,303 are at or above the age of 65.