head-shrinker

head-shrinker

Primary Meanings of head-shrinker

1.	n	a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies
2.	n	a physician who specializes in psychiatry

Full Definitions of head-shrinker

Examples:: show 9 examples...; hide 9 examples...; Karen Danielsen Horney
United States psychiatrist (1885-1952); Karl Theodor Jaspers
German psychiatrist (1883-1969); Charles Frederick Menninger
United States psychiatrist who with his sons founded a famous psychiatric clinic in Topeka (1862-1953); Karl Augustus Menninger
United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990); William Claire Menninger
United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1899-1966); Harry Stack Sullivan
United States psychiatrist (1892-1949); Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939); Melanie Klein
United States psychoanalyst (born in Austria) who was the first to specialize in the psychoanalysis of small children (1882-1960); Wilhelm Reich
Austrian born psychoanalyst who lived in the United States; advocated sexual freedom and believed that cosmic energy could be concentrated in a human being (1897-1957)

Types:: alienist
a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness; analyst, psychoanalyst
a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis