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A shrink

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  • 21-10-2006 10:32am
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    PH4T
    Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭


    I was watching an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm the other week where Larry went to visit his shrink and he was explaining to a friend afterwards that he does it because "you can’t bother your friends with this stuff".

    This is psychoanalysis right? Is a shrink in the US sense a Psychiatrist or a Psychologist?

    How would you go about getting a shrink in Dublin?


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    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    A shrink is slang and so not well defined, but is taken to refer to a person working in the counselling or psychotherapy fields. This could be a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a psychotherapist, a counsellor, a.... the list is enless because so many kinds of professionals (and con-artists!) work in this area. If you want to find someone, go to the professional organisations:
    psihq.ie
    babcp.com
    irish council for psychotherapy
    irish association for counselling and therapy
    Then check out the person and their qualifications and so on.

    Hey mods, could you maybe make a sticky on this topic? It seems to get asked very often................ :rolleyes:


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    p.pete
    Registered Users Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭p.pete


    That's a good idea actually JuliusCaesar - I'll look at maybe collating some of the previous threads into a sticky on psychology related professions.


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