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Psychotherapist vs Shrinker - What's the difference?

psychotherapist | shrinker |

As nouns the difference between psychotherapist and shrinker

is that psychotherapist is someone who practices psychotherapy using any acceptable method such as psychoanalysis while shrinker is something that makes something else shrink.

psychotherapist

English

(Psychotherapy)

Noun

  • Someone who practices psychotherapy using any acceptable method such as psychoanalysis.

    • See also

    * psychiatrist * shrink * head-shrinker

    shrinker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that makes something else shrink.
  • (slang) A psychiatrist; a head-shrinker.
  • (medicine) An sock-like article used to compress a stump remaining after amputation.
  • One who shrinks or recoils.
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  • Something that itself shrinks.
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    • Derived terms

    * head-shrinker