Why are psychotherapists called 'shrinks'?
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"True therapy should expand you through love, restoring respect and confidence, revealing your essential value and interconnectedness with existence."
According to Osho, psychotherapists are called 'shrinks' because they literally shrink people: they reduce living, dignified persons into patients and diagnostic labels, making themselves bigger while instilling guilt and worthlessness—just as old priests did. True therapy should expand you through love, restore respect and confidence, and reveal your essential value and interconnectedness with existence.
Because many therapists make people feel small with labels, but real healing should make you feel bigger, loved, and valuable.
Why this matters practically
- Notice and reject labels that shrink your dignity.
- Seek helpers and practices that expand love, respect, and confidence.
- Practice loving awareness toward yourself and others as daily healing.
- Seek helpers and practices that expand love, respect, and confidence.
- Practice loving awareness toward yourself and others as daily healing.
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