Old Hollywood films sometimes showed indigenous people with shrunken human heads on sticks; I cannot, though, provide you an example of such an image. Using the term "shrink" in a distinctly non-exhaustive Google search yielded a website url that indeed discusses that origin of the term. See:
http://www.dearshrink.com/shrink.htm DKH ------------- >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/05/08 12:12 PM >>> I have forgotten the etiology of the term "shrink". Can someone remind me? Second: Why were psychologists called alienists through the early part of the last century? Third: I DO REMEMBER why we get our head examined! That comes from when phrenology was in vogue and people, even employers would send prospective employees, to phrenologists to have the bumps read on their heads: hence, having one's head examined. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
