shrin=physcologist. reason for this illustrious nickname, anyone?

Home Forums Litoeles H'rabim! shrin=physcologist. reason for this illustrious nickname, anyone?

Viewing 13 posts - 1 through 13 (of 13 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • #598906
    Toi
    Participant

    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?

    #802032
    TheGoq
    Participant

    Maybe because they reduce their patients problems.

    #802034
    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.”

    #802035
    Abe Cohen
    Participant

    More like because they reduce their patients wallet.

    #802036
    Abe Cohen
    Participant

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

    #802037

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

    #802038
    always here
    Participant

    headshrinker

    #802039
    Sam2
    Participant

    It’s short for “head shrinker” or “brain shrinker”. I’m not sure where those names come from though.

    #802040
    happiest
    Member

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

    #802041
    Health
    Participant

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

    #802042
    Toi
    Participant

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

    #802043
    bein_hasdorim
    Participant

    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.

    #802044
    PhoenixRises
    Member

    Psychologist.

    Spellcheck.

Viewing 13 posts - 1 through 13 (of 13 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.