[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have forgotten the etiology of the term "shrink". > > Can someone remind me? > > Head shrinker. > Second: > > Why were psychologists called alienists through the early part of the last > century? > Because the mad were said to be alienated from reason. > 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. > I had never heard that before. What is your source? The idea that the head is the location of the intellect dates back to ancient times. Why would this expression date to the time of phrenology in particular?
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