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The therapist who shrinks your problems, and occasionally your wallet, to size.
means Slang for a psychiatrist or psychotherapist, someone you pay to untangle your mind.
from Short for headshrinker, 1960s American slang darkly comparing therapists to tribal headhunters who literally shrank their enemies' heads.
First printTime magazine popularized it in 1966.
Verb tooMeans to contract, from Old English scrincan.
Couch mythMost modern therapists ditched the reclining couch.