Psychiatrist MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Psychiatrist? Psychiatrist is an INTJ personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - sp/so - 512 in Enneagram, RCOAI in Big 5, ILI in Socionics.
Currently in medical school studying to be a psychiatrist. Medical school itself is Si-Te heavy with rote memorization of facts regarding anatomy, pathology, and basic science based on what prior research has shown us. This is pretty much true of every medical specialty which is incredibly algorithm and procedure-based with very little room for creativity and flexibility. There is detailed note-taking and checklists made for every patient that walks in the doors. I can see why people voted for ISTJ. Now specifically, psychiatry is a pretty Te-Fi field. Our diagnoses for most psychiatric illness/disorders necessarily draw upon an external resource, the DSM-5 (let's save our criticisms for this somewhere else) which is based on evidence, observations, and patterns in previous samples of patients with the same disorder. Some comments mentioned that using your "intuitions" to diagnose and treat patients will quickly land you with some kind of lawsuit, which I think isn't exactly what's happening here. Intuition means being able to recognize patterns that exists outside of what is immediately observable. Intuition guides us in the directions of further investigation, but is not the end all and be all of the approach to patient care. Therefore, I think Ni-Te is the best fit for someone of this profession - being able to quickly suss out the pertinent "flags" of each patient based on Ni and to dig deeper to find out what's the root cause of their problems using Te. There was an interesting article I read about how Fe is about emotional harmony whereas Fi is about emotional accuracy. While I do think Fe-Ti might have the tools to be excellent therapists, psychiatry is still fundamentally a medical specialty which would benefit from a degree of emotional detachment as well as accuracy when it comes to dealing with the psyche and treatment of individuals. The average psychiatrist probably sees patients for 15 min at a time; the appointments are no nonsense, going over symptoms, and medication adjustment which is very different from 1 hr long psychotherapy appointments. Therefore, the INFJ arguments make less sense to me, although I would not doubt for a second they could make excellent psychiatrists as well.
