head-shrinker

English

Etymology

Presumably, patients and clients feel as though their heads are being shrunk.

Noun

head-shrinker (plural head-shrinkers)

1. (slang) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist; a shrink.
2. Literally, one who shrinks heads, as previously done by some Amazon tribes.

Synonyms

• shrink

Translations

slang: psychotherapist — see shrink

one who shrinks the heads of the dead

• Finnish: kallonkutistaja (fi)

• Hungarian: fejzsugorító (hu)