psychobabble

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It may sound like esoteric psychobabble, or an overemphasis on something that should be inherent in players.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2019

In the end, no such censorship was required; the American contestants were uniformly chaste and polite, their speech sanitized psychobabble cultivated to convey self-awareness, depth, and respect for women.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 10, 2019

Biological theories of and treatments for the brain, notably drugs like Thorazine, lithium, Valium and Prozac, displaced Freudian psychobabble and transformed psychiatry into a truly scientific discipline.

From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2019

Norm and Corky, a couple for 19 years, have spent almost as long working on their relationship, with the help of magazines, books and a lot of psychobabble.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2017

Ask a simple question, get a load of touchy-feely psychobabble in return.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman