How To Use Psychobabble In A Sentence
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What we have in Barack Obama is the perfect blending of postmodern Marxism with therapeutic psychobabble into a royal narcissistic mishmosh.
Archive 2009-03-01
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“Self-esteem is, of course, a term in the modern lexicon of psychobabble, and psychobabble is itself the verbal expression of self-absorption without self-examination.”
Weekend Edition: 4-3 « A Progressive on the Prairie
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“Self-esteem is, of course, a term in the modern lexicon of psychobabble, and psychobabble is itself the verbal expression of self-absorption without self-examination.”
Weekend Edition: 4-3 « A Progressive on the Prairie
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“Self-esteem is, of course, a term in the modern lexicon of psychobabble, and psychobabble is itself the verbal expression of self-absorption without self-examination [3].”
A Progressive on the Prairie » Weekend Edition: 4-3 » Print
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All this may turn out to be mere psychobabble, which is what the Bush crowd dismissively concluded about Oliver Stone's film.
‘Night, Not-So-Sweet Prince
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Unfortunately, in this reviewer's estimation, it is a flawed one: an attempted blend of evolutionary theory as the basis for psychology and implausible Freudian psychobabble.
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The author aims to provide readers with a ‘profound psychological insight’ into the life of Bill Clinton but ends up spouting Freudian psychobabble.
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In it I write Dr. Phyl, Oprey's favorite tele-psychobabbler, analyzes Heathcliff and Cathy.
Jane Austen's World
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Furthermore, a good chunk of his theory is untestable metaphysics, psychobabble and gobbledygook.
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Self-esteem is, of course, a term in the modern lexicon of psychobabble, and psychobabble is itself the verbal expression of self-absorption without self-examination.
ProWomanProLife » 2010 » March
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The time has come to stop listening to the excuses for such behavior generated by its socio- and psychobabbler apologists.
June 29th, 2003
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It's as unintelligible a piece of artspeak and psychobabble as I have ever stumbled through, and a dictionary is not supplied.
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Sometimes it's better to trust your core beliefs rather than rely on the hyperbolized psychobabble that permeates much of society today.
David Baldacci talks about 'Last Man Standing'
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The thing that I really heard was ‘Let's not louse it up with a lot of psychobabble.’
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Wilkins has inadvertently struck upon a deeper problem than straw men and psychobabble.
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She'd become addicted to therapies, psychoanalytic jargon and psychobabble, in place of religion perhaps.
THE TATTOOED GIRL
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In my long career as a tele-psychobabbler, I must say that I encounter an assortment of juvenile behaviors among my featured guests, but few possess even 1 / 10th of Heathcliff's charged and emotionally unhealthy obsessions.
Jane Austen's World
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They even psychobabble together: "We achieved what I call gestalt," says Gore.
Friends For Now
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And, in conclusion, I feel compelled to point out that Dr. Phil, everybody's favourite TV psychobabbler, always says: "If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy".
Oh, the pressure! Oh, the guilt!
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Oh, by the way, excuse me for engaging in what you would call psychobabble, but what I would call stating my feelings the best way I know how.
Characters in a Play
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The whole “unfairness of a competent military force” routine psychobabble is presently being used on Israel, and the US is now getting the same treatment.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference
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Furthermore, a good chunk of his theory is untestable metaphysics, psychobabble and gobbledygook.
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I may be a "psychobabbler" but what I do all day in my work is observe the cognitive dissonance between what people say and what they do.
Bolden and Garver: Smooth Sailing - NASA Watch
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I realize you're a professional psychobabbler, but please keep it out of this space policy discussion.
Bolden and Garver: Smooth Sailing - NASA Watch
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An accomplished psychobabbler can talk for hours about himself without revealing anything.
ProWomanProLife » Self-esteem, self-respect, self-absorption
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Page after page of manic ramblings crowd these uneven stories to a claustrophobic pitch, threatening to lose even the most attentive of readers with their jargon-heavy, obfuscated psychobabble.
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Is this self-indulgent psychobabble or legitimate therapy?
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Dr. Phil made an appearance on CNN this past Tuesday night and when asked his, "psychobabble" - opinion of Sarah Palin, he gave her a glowing image but stated he had not yet made up his mind as to who he will vote for.
Help Dr. Phil
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She spouts fountains of ridiculous psychobabble but has the firmest grasp on reality.
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Such things, of course, because of the innate prejudice and hypocrisy of the liberal press, never get mentioned, since, no doubt, they are merely expressing their inner selves or whatever psychobabble is currently in vogue.
Chav Hunts
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They mouth slogans and psychobabble.
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Beneath the sentimental psychobabble, there's a likeable movie trying to get out.
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This will not please the psychobabblers and the melodramatists and the daytime-television bookers; but she is unfazed.
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“Self-esteem is, of course, a term in the modern lexicon of psychobabble, and psychobabble is itself the verbal expression of self-absorption without self-examination [3].”
A Progressive on the Prairie » Weekend Edition: 4-3 » Print
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To those concerned about language in contemporary society, jargon has understandably become a repulsive term signifying a cloudy, pretentious insider's language subdivided into ugly types such as psychobabble, educationese, sociologese, and bureaucratese.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4
