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Psychologists are prescribing anti depressantsit's actually the other way around. psychiatrists are medical doctors and are able to prescribe drugs to their patients. psychologists have doctoral degrees and focus primarily on psychotherapy, counseling, behavioral therapy, etc.--they're not allowed to prescribe drugs except in a few states if they've taken extra pharmacology courses.
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(Edit: I believe they technically may be recommending to the primary physician to write the prescription, but in reality thy are prescribing it)