headshrinker

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headshrinker

1. a slang name for psychiatrist

2. a head-hunter who shrinks the heads of his victims

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Not that he likes to talk about what must have been a truly disturbing experience because, having made his home in this country for the last 35 years, he is very much a rugby man first and criminal headshrinker second.

Rugby Union: BEES' LAW LORD; Clinical psychology is helping make on of the season's success stories. Brian Dick explains All of the principles that would apply to someone who is a drug-abuser or alcoholic and getting them on the right track are the same principles that you would use here to get players to stay on the right training regime, be disciplined about food and keep going to the gym Brian Thomas-Peter

After she had finished with each figure, Yuskavage (who talks to her art, although she is quick to point out that it doesn't talk back) wagged her finger, chastising the little sculptures as, variously, "asspicker, foodeater, headshrinker, socialclimber, motherfucker.

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Streseman, Note, Headshrinkers, Manmunchers, Moneygrubbers, Nuts & Sluts: Reexamining Compelled Mental Examinations in Sexual Harassment Actions Under the Civil Rights Act of 1991, 80 CORNELL L.