wig-picker

English

Noun

wig-picker (plural wig-pickers)

1. (dated) A psychotherapist.
   • 1954, Time, page 92:

     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.

   • 1958, David M. Camerer, The Damned Wear Wings, page 167:

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

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

     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.