Suddenly, "head shrinker" has a whole new (slightly more pleasant?) ring to it.
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It turns out that he's a world-class head shrinker — and head enlarger, too, an all-purpose mind-bender.
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Charlie Looker: Guitar, Vocals Travis Laplante: keyboards, tenor sax, EWI Anthony Gedrich: bass, contrabass Nick Podgurski: drums, percussion Caley Monahon-Ward: violin, mandolin, engineer Guest musicians: Ian Antonio: glockenspiel, vibraphone, crotales, wood block Larkin Grimm: backing vocals on "One of Your Whores" and "Head Shrinker". All music and lyrics by Charlie Looker.
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Initial (or fore) clipping retains the final part of the word. Examples: bot (robot), chute (parachute), roach (cockroach), gator (alligator), phone (telephone), pike (turnpike), varsity (university), net (Internet). Final and initial clipping may be combined and result in curtailed words with the middle part of the prototype retained, which is the stressed syllable. Examples: flu (influenza), frig or fridge (refrigerator), jams or jammies (pajamas/pyjamas), polly (apollinaris), rona (coronavirus), shrink (head-shrinker), tec (detective).
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Their innovations, including the use of light pipes and volumetric analysis, have been important in the deployment of PET imaging. In 1961, James Robertson and his associates at Brookhaven National Laboratory built the first single-plane PET scan, nicknamed the "head-shrinker." One of the factors most responsible for the acceptance of positron imaging was the development of radiopharmaceuticals. In particular, the development of labeled 2-fluorodeoxy- D-glucose (2FDG) by the Brookhaven group under the direction of Al Wolf and Joanna Fowler was a major factor in expanding the scope of PET imaging.
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Shaka Booga (Julie Lemieux) was apparently a prehistoric witch doctor who tried to devolve civilians into cavemen using a magical powder in "Devolution City", similar to the situation of the third- season episode "Head Shrinker Much?" from Totally Spies!. She attempted to drop her devolution powder into the planets tar pits, thereby causing the planet to devolve into a black hole, thereby sucking up the entire galaxy, and even turned Betty's bracelet primitive, however, she was beaten when Sparky tied her up with his yo-yo which, being already primitive, was not effected by the powder.
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While most therapy favours a process of strengthening the ego functions, at the expense of the irrational parts of the mind,Harold Stewart, Psychic Experience and Problems of Technique (1992) p. 127-8 a reduction in self-importance and self-involvement – ego reduction – is also generally valorised: Robin Skynner for example describing the 'shrink' as a head-shrinker, and adding that “as our swollen heads get smaller...as people we grow”.Robin Skynner/John Cleese, Families and how to survive them (1994) p. 63 Rational emotive behaviour therapy also favours such ego reduction as a part of extending self-control and confirming personal boundaries.
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