Christopher D
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From: Christopher D. Green
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [tips] etiology of "shrink" and other things
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shrink is a short version of headshrinker which originated with the
practices of the medicine men of Africa.
How Afrocentric! :-)
I think you will find, Michael, that head shrinking was a practice of
aboriginals of the Amazon River basin in South America, not Africans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrunken_head
Chris
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Voodoo came from Africa and there was some element of head shrinking not as
brutal as in the Amazon.Btw, trepiphaning was a physiological method
originating in Africa,long before Karl Lashley began extirpating the brains
of rats.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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