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Psychobabble (a portmanteau of "psychology" or "psychoanalysis" and "babble") is a form of speech or writing that uses psychological jargon, buzzwords, and esoteric language to create an impression of truth or plausibility. The term implies that the speaker or writer lacks the experience and understanding necessary for the proper use of psychological terms. Additionally, it may imply that the content of speech deviates markedly from common sense and good judgement. Some buzzwords that are commonly heard in psychobabble have come into widespread use in business management, motivational seminars, self-help, folk psychology, and popular psychology. Frequent use of psychobabble can associate a clinical, psychological word with meaningless, or less meaningful, buzzword definitions. Laypersons often use such words when they describe life problems as clinical maladies even though the clinical terms are not meaningful or appropriate. Most professions develop a unique vocabulary which, with frequent use, may become commonplace buzzwords. Professional psychologists may reject the "psychobabble" label when it is applied to their own special terminology. The allusions to psychobabble imply that some psychological concepts lack precision and have become meaningless or pseudoscientific. Science demands the testing of ideas in experiments whose results are repeatable. In this context and since the scientific method is generally replaced by inductive reasoning in psychology, it does not qualify as a science. ==Origin== Psychobabble was defined by the writer who coined the word, R.D. Rosen,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Psychobabble - Richard Dean Rosen )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Psychobabble dictionary definition - psychobabble defined )〕 as a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candour, and understanding it pretends to promote. It’s an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations )〕The word itself came into popular use after his 1977 publication of ''Psychobabble: Fast Talk and Quick Cure in the Era of Feeling''. Rosen coined the word in 1975 in a book review for The Boston Phoenix, then featured it in a cover story for the magazine ''New Times'' titled "Psychobabble: The New Language of Candor."〔Compare: 〕 His book ''Psychobabble'' explores the dramatic expansion of psychological treatments and terminology in both professional and non-professional settings. In 2010, Theodore Dalrymple defined psychobabble as "the means by which people talk about themselves without revealing anything." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「psychobabble」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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