head-shrinker

Definitions of head-shrinker
  1. noun
    a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies
    synonyms: headhunter
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    type of:
    barbarian, savage
    a member of an uncivilized people
  2. noun
    a physician who specializes in psychiatry
    synonyms: psychiatrist, shrink
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    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)
    types:
    alienist
    a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness
    analyst, psychoanalyst
    a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis
    type of:
    medical specialist, specialist
    someone who practices one branch of medicine
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