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noun Language characterized by the often inaccurate use of jargon from psychiatry and psychotherapy: "Discussions ... sometimes ... consist of consciousness-raising psychobabble, with the students' feelings and experiences valued as much as anything the professor or texts have to offer” (Karen Lehrman).

That kind of psychobabble made even him want to whoop his ass. — The Survivors Club by Lisa Gardener
The woman's a crazy, probably harmless, possibly obsessive-compulsive Hey, Sarge, psychobabble is my specialty. — AnalogSFF,May2008
And of course we'll continue to do it all in our laid-back style, ensuring we don't couch things in psychobabble or require you to have a doctorate degree in psychology to understand. — World of Psychology
Regardless, Loewenstein's only quibble is that the interview's introduction is "excessively flowery" - flowery in this case meaning non-native-English-speaker psychobabble: — RWDB – J.F. Beck
And now they cloak it in some high minded pseudo-intellectual psychobabble, and most of the young kids eat that up today as gospel. — digg.com: Stories / Popular