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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?
Maybe because they reduce their patients problems.
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.”
More like because they reduce their patients wallet.
Also it probably is the same reason lawyers are called “sharks”.
It’s the shortened version of the word head-shrinker which is slang for a psychotherapist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, pscychologist
headshrinker
It’s short for “head shrinker” or “brain shrinker”. I’m not sure where those names come from though.
Happens to be, I hate when people call a therapist a shrink. It makes me feel very uncomfortable. I don’t know why.
Toi – Too bad he isn’t an English subject teacher, then maybe you could learn how to spell and write English!
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.
Psychologist.
Spellcheck.
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