What is a headshrinker?
This paper speculates on the origins of the slang term "headshrinker," commonly used to designate and devalue a psychiatrist. It is concluded that the term was coined shortly after World War II. The term serves to lessen patients' anxiety over their view of the psychiatrist's power and magic.
D005201:Fantasy; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011639:Public Opinion; D014481:United States; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic