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

    Question #16965. Asked by Socrates. (Mar 06 02 6:24 PM)


    Barrow boy

    		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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