"head-shrinker" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

A physician who specializes in psychiatry (synset 110507601)
is a type of: medical specialist, specialist - practices one branch of medicine
subtypes:
- alienist - a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness
- analyst, psychoanalyst - a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis
specific instances:
- horney, karen danielsen horney, karen horney - United States psychiatrist (1885-1952)
- jaspers, karl jaspers, karl theodor jaspers - German psychiatrist (1883-1969)
- charles frederick menninger, charles menninger, menninger - United States psychiatrist who with his sons founded a famous psychiatric clinic in Topeka (1862-1953)
- karl augustus menninger, karl menninger, menninger - United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990)
- menninger, william claire menninger, william menninger - United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1899-1966)
- harry stack sullivan, sullivan - United States psychiatrist (1892-1949)
same as: psychiatrist, shrink
A savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies (synset 110183045)
is a type of: barbarian, savage - a member of an uncivilized people

same as: headhunter