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1. Toi
   Shruikin

   My uncle, who happens to be a shrink, recently informed me of the reason for the nickname. What does the CR think the origin/reason for it is?

   Posted 9 months ago #

2. The Goq
   Founder and president of the CR welcome wagon!

   Maybe because they reduce their patients problems.

   Posted 9 months ago #

3. ronrsr
   Member

   Its a comparison to other people who traditionally work on heads, the headhunters and headSHRINKers of South America, who would shrink their captured heads for trophy, ritual or trade purposes. It is a shortened form of headshrinker, which was once a popular moniker for psychiatrists.

   My preferred terminology for a trip to the shrink. Is "a check-up from the neck up."

   Posted 9 months ago #

4. Abe Cohen
   Member

   More like because they reduce their patients wallet.

   Posted 9 months ago #

5. Abe Cohen
   Member

   Also it probably is the same reason lawyers are called "sharks".

   Posted 9 months ago #

6. Putting my two cents in
   Member

   It's the shortened version of the word head-shrinker which is slang for a psychotherapist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, pscychologist

   Posted 9 months ago #

7. always here
   and always on schedule

   headshrinker

   Posted 9 months ago #

8. Sam2
   Member

   It's short for "head shrinker" or "brain shrinker". I'm not sure where those names come from though.

   Posted 9 months ago #

9. happiest
   If your happy and you know it clap your hands!!!

   Happens to be, I hate when people call a therapist a shrink. It makes me feel very uncomfortable. I don't know why.

   Posted 9 months ago #

10. Health
    Member

    Toi - Too bad he isn't an English subject teacher, then maybe you could learn how to spell and write English!

    Posted 9 months ago #

11. Toi
    Shruikin

    o boy. so much funny. i assumed you knew it was a silent "K".

    Posted 9 months ago #

12. bein_hasdorim
    Member

    Goq; obviously if the slang was chosen "because they reduce their patients problems" they would've been called "Shrinkers"

    Since the title is shrink, I propose that it referring rather to their own intellect which seems to shrink as they practice their profession, requiring them to see other shrinks themselves in the hopes of finding what they seem to have lost over the years.

    Posted 9 months ago #

13. PhoenixRises
    Member

    Psychologist.

    Spellcheck.

    Posted 9 months ago #

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