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Academic courses and supervision in psychological testing are usually not a part of a psychiatrist's medical training, so most psychiatrists can ethically administer only some specific clinical tests that are straight-forward check-lists of symptoms. .... Hence its technical name, the polygraph, a word composed of poly- (from the Greek poly, many) and -graph (from the Greek graphos, writing) in reference to the instrument's multiple recording channels. ...