wig-picker

noun

A psychotherapist.

Meanings

nounwig-picker (plural wig-pickers)

plural wig-pickers

  1. datedA psychotherapist.

    And I've been up, right with you," snapped the little flight surgeon, "playing wig picker to a flock of kids with nerve sickness.

    1958, David M. Camerer, The Damned Wear Wings, page 167
    2 more examples

    Science fiction may be bad science and worse fiction, but to a good wig-picker it "is a sensitive barometer of our changing mental climate.

    1954, Time, page 92

    I decided that a man full of self-pity was a bloody menace to himself and everyone else, so I went to see that wig-picker Esposito.

    1965, Patrick D. Wall, Trio: The Revolting Intellectuals Organization, page 82
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