Where do we get the term 'shrink' (psychoanalyst)?

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My Chambers 20th Century dictionary attributes this slang to the US as being short for headshrinker. Headshrinkers used to hunt their fellow humans, cut their heads off and shrink them - not much therapy there! Mar 06 02, 7:36 PM

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