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.
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