shrink:
(plural: ‘shrinks‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
(also called ‘shrinker’) a person (or a machine or liquid) who makes something small;
(also called ‘headshrinker‘ & in slang usage) a medical doctor (psychiatrist/psychotherapist) who treats patients with mental (mind) problem,
Being a psychiatrist, Dr Blessy finds it annoying to hear people, even educated people, call her a shrink.
There are scientists who say that getting a therapy from shrinks, a psychiatrists or psychotherapists, is a waste of time and money as what all those shrinks do is to prescribe some sleep-causing drugs to make their patients feel relieved of their anxieties.
The modern day medical headshrinkers, the so called psychotherapists, do more harm than the headshrinkers of the Amazon rain forests because the Amazonian headshrinkers shrink the enemy’s head only after killing, but the urban medical headshrinkers shrink their patients while still alive with their treatment and drugs.
Note 2: ‘Headshrinker’ or ‘head shrinker’ is also used to refer to a drink.


