Ok, sorry about the title. Some things seem funnier to you when it’s late at night.
Anyways, my question:
Why are psychiatrists nicknamed “shrinks”?
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying.”
– Woody Allen
Think “head shrinker”…y’know, those voodoo guys who’d shrink an enemy’s head and wear it on his belt…
-David
Thought about that, but couldn’t see an immediate connection between shrinking heads and lying on a couch spilling your guts…
Well, if you have a large ego you have a “big head”. Thus someone trying to fix a large ego problem would be a “head shrinker” or “shrink”.
That’s just a WAG though.
There’s also the association of headshrinker=magician. In other words, the psychiatrist’s methods are just as mysterious as the headshrinkers.
Or just about as full of hooey…