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. Kansas has 276 practicing psychiatrists. Broken out by city, psychiatry doctor density in Abilene is 1, in Andover is 3, in Atchison is 2, in Augusta is 3, in Beloit is 1, in Coffeyville is 3, in Colby is 1, in Concordia is 2, in Dodge City is 3, in El Dorado is 3, in Elkhart is 1, in Emporia is 1, in Fairway is 3, in Garden City is 4, in Goodland is 1, in Great Bend is 1, in Greensburg is 1, in Halstead is 1, in Hays is 2, in Hiawatha is 1, in Hutchinson is 5, in Junction City is 1, in Kansas City is 33, in Larned is 8, in Lawrence is 11, in Leavenworth is 9, in Leawood is 19, in Lenexa is 5, in Liberal is 2, in Manhattan is 5, in Marion is 3, in Mcpherson is 2, in Mission is 5, in Newton is 8, in Olathe is 7, in Osawatomie is 10, in Oskaloosa is 2, in Ottawa is 1, in Overland Park is 35, in Parsons is 3, in Pittsburg is 2, in Prairie Village is 14, in Salina is 7, in Scott City is 1, in Shawnee is 4, in Shawnee Mission is 29, in Topeka is 35, in Ulysses is 1, in Wellington is 1, in Wichita is 46, in Winfield is 1, and in Zimmerdale is 2.

Kansas was admitted to the United States in 1861. Topeka is its capital city, and the population of Kansas is 2,744,687. Topeka offers sports and recreation, arts and cultural entertainment, and casinos to residents and visitors. Lucas claims to be the Folk Art center of the United States. Visit the Pony Express National Historic Trail, tour historic Fort Leavenworth, or see the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in Atchinson. Kansas is also home to the John Brown Museum, which was a stop on the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s.

According to 2005 Census estimates, Kansas has a population of 2,744,687. Of this population, 652,270 are under the age of 18 and 354,995 are at or above the age of 65.