The Doctor of Psychology
For many people, the word means Medical Doctor. Your doctor is the doctor. In fact, the term refers to a PhD degree. Your doctor is a Medical Doctor and deliveries, a graduate of a medical school.
Other schools also issue diplomas of doctor. Someone can be a PhD in Physics and PhD in Chemistry or…. Doctor of Psychology.
Specifically, the doctor of psychology is the one who remained at the university after his master (or license). Brilliant student, he is usually hired by the university to develop in-depth research on a particular theme: his doctoral thesis.
Both student and employee, the student or PhD student (who did his thesis) is paid or subsidized (which is not the case for everyone, however). By the FNRS, for example.
After three or four years of doctoral, after a public presentation (thesis defense) and have met the requirements of scientific publication, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Psychology.
For info, the next stage is that of Professor.