Is Harley a psychologist or psychiatrist?

[Captain Smith]

There is quite a difference. The first is a PhD or PsyD. The latter is an MD or medical doctor. I've seen both. IIRC, I once saw her yell at Dr. Fate for not being a real doc when someone was hurt and she took over. A psychologist wouldn't say that.

[Vakanai]

The answer is - most people, and most comic book writers, don't know the difference anyways. It's one of those easily confused things, and doesn't matter much to the larger continuity. It goes back and forth depending on the whims or little fallacies of any given writer.

[Robo Strange]

The answer is - most people, and most comic book writers, don't know the difference anyways. It's one of those easily confused things, and doesn't matter much to the larger continuity. It goes back and forth depending on the whims or little fallacies of any given writer.

This is the answer right here. There is no proof of either, as there is source evidence for both (as seen in this thread).

My head canon is that she's a PhD Doctor rather than MD Doctor. 1) Her age and 2) Her interactions with the Joker.

[Phoenixx9]

I thought she was a psychologist, but I could be wrong.

[Arnoldoaad]

from what I know one of the most important differences between Psychologist and Psychiatrist is that a psychatrist can precribe drugs, a psychologyst cannot.
judging by the fact that Harley worked on arkham asylum which maybe would imply the necesity to prescribe drugs for threatment to certain patients maybe she could be a psychatrist

[Ilan Preskovsky]

There's also the question of therapy. I think it's a bit more common in the States than it is here in South Africa but, traditionally psychologists administer talk therapy, whereas psychiatrists are more there to administer drugs and to specifically tackle the psychological pathologies themselves. I actually assumed she was a psychiatrist.

[Harpsikord]

She's Dr Quinzel. She's a psychiatrist.

[Nite-Wing]

Doctor Harleen Quinzel
She is a psychiatrist by trade although I doubt anyone who has been writing her really cares whether she has her doctorate or not
Although that Doctor Fate joke is funny in context

[seismic-2]

She's Dr Quinzel. She's a psychiatrist.

A clinical psychologist has a Ph.D., for instance Bob Newhart's Dr. Bob Hartley (AKA "Drrrr").