Sentences with word «psychobabble»

I do my best to steer clear of «psychobabble» and offer tools for change that are easily understood and practical.
In a down - to - earth style that is free of psychobabble, Weiner - Davis outlines a realistic, solution - oriented seven - step program for managing marital problems, which, when left unchecked, can drain the life out of a relationship.
If you are seeking a therapist that will go beyond the psychobabble to truly help you, call Dr. Silver.»
After having said all this, experts could be very helpful to attorneys and courts if we focused on descriptions of behavior, including the child's, the favored parent and the rejected parent's rather than jargon or psychobabble.
«I could tell you all about my 20 + years of trainings / certifications, therapeutic methods, and the usual psychobabble jargon professionals use.
The courtroom, especially, is not a place to engage in psychobabble; the audience will get lost and the expert will be ineffective.
When mental health professionals are presenting to other professionals in other fields, the expert needs to be sensitive to not over do our own jargon (i.e. psychobabble).
There is a fair amount of psychobabble throughout.
Marshall is forced to fall back on psychobabble because the political case for environmentalism has proved unpersuasive.
For all this paper's high sounding technical jargon and psychobabble, it basically amounts to an attempt to stamp out terminology perceived to be injurious to the Great Climate Cause.
Everyone was either in analysis or talked the psychobabble.
Enough of the seminar - laden psychobabble.
It's just that simple and we can forget all the psychobabble about what makes «deniers» behave as they do.
This will probably only be bolstered by the psychobabble that your co-driver spews throughout the game.
Joseph Seed is the main villain and he's a good one, full of long stares, slow - speaking psychobabble, and disturbing actions.
This is perhaps the most dense science fiction psychobabble this side of L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth saga, which I myself have read and seen the awful resulting film with John Travolta.
why go into psychobabble just let the music of the film take you instead of thinking in terms of poppy being «a defensive mechanism» just look at those previous words, where is our lost innocence?
By way of some «very complicated quantum mechanics» involving «parabolic calculus» explains project supervisor Dr. Rutledge (Jeffrey Wright) in inscrutable, pseudo-scientific psychobabble, not in laymen's terms which a movie audience could comprehend.
It takes a full 50 minutes of demystifying psychobabble before Zombie decides to get to the actual story of the grown Michael (Tyler Mane) stalking teenage babysitters on All Hallow's Eve, and it is dreadfully apparent that Zombie neither realizes nor cares about what made Michael frightening in the first place.
Banderas, with a shaved head and mournful eyes, labors mightily to make something meaningful out of all the tedious psychobabble, while his fellow cast mates, including Dylan McDermott, Robert Forster and a miscast Melanie Griffith (as a robot programmer) appear to be acting in different movies.
While that might sound like a recipe for either needless headiness or boring psychobabble, this movie indulges in neither thing.
Downloading Nancy is a nasty exploitation flick tarted up with art - house actors and psychobabble.
When the skeleteon jumped out of the fireplace, this should have turned into a roller coaster ride of a haunted house film and instead turned into psychobabble bull shit that didn't hold people's attention let alone frighten them.
Writers throwing together a lot of scientific and technical jargon that they clearly don't understand and mixing it with new age psychobabble - then wrapping all of that around a plot riddled with holes and inconsistencies.
Writers throwing together a lot of scientific and technical jargon that they clearly don't understand and mixing it with new age psychobabble
The second is psychobabble nonsense without much suspense.
Lots of people talk these days about «being mindful» and «being in the present moment» — those phrases are used so often now that, if you're not sure what they even mean, it can be easy to write them off as hippy - dippy new - agey psychobabble.
I find that these books are often chock - full with enough pseudoscience and psychobabble to shoot a sci - fi film.
Like «self love» or «inner child,» the term «codependent» smacks of pop psychology psychobabble.
He refers to the ceaseless parsing of his dynamic with his father as «forced psychobabble» and says that their relationship has always been «much simpler and nicer than people made it out to be.»
No Medical Jargon, psychobabble or emotional rambling, just practical information to help you survive and thrive during pregnancy, birth and becoming a parent.
Despite the plethora of respected research demonstrating the critical importance of early parent - child attachment, «Babywise» breezily dismisses this concept as little more than self - indulgent psychobabble.
Let me cease and desist with the preachy psychobabble.
The old saying of «There are no easy games in the Premier League» is no longer marketing psychobabble but a reality.
What kind of psychobabble is that?
Dozens of pages of unedited psychobabble, in fact.
Predictably, however, the whole death and dying discourse began to develop into a sort of trendy psychobabble for nurses and chaplains and therapists who sat wringing their hands over someone stuck in stage three, saying things like, «If only he could move past it.»
In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, the press and airwaves were clogged with the usual socio - psychobabble, and of course the «cult experts» got another turn in front of the cameras.
Or the psychobabble counterpart to rational choice that claims to explain religion in terms of dependency, wish projection, and other tools in the analytical arsenal of the intellectually and spiritually stunted project that is academic religious studies.
It is now obvious to me that it was that delusional master of psychobabble, Wilhelm Reich, who was the key post-Freud figure.
Your Creationist psychobabble nonsense has no place in schools where actual real science is taught.
It can also evoke a systematic loss of confidence that produces poor preachers with nothing to say beyond psychobabble or sociojargon.
When I would go through some of my more difficult times instead of giving me some long line of psychobabble he would say something like: when you read the story of David he seemed to be a person who had many emotional ups and downs.
(Whatever that means) That's pop - psychobabble foolishness.
Today, the question is more likely to arise from the wetlands of psychobabble; thus one Midwestern diocesan chancellor recently spoke about a diocesan «needs assessment» that «can give ownership to the people,» presumably of their lives as Catholics.
Go save someone, or kill someone, build something, or destroy something, pick a leader, be a martyr, anything but this psychobabble lunacy about materialist moralism!
We did the same thing in junior high school, but now that we're more mature we practice psychobabble hit - and - run as we sit in the hot tub and sip chardonnay.
I think we need less psychobabble in our churches and more Jesus.
Such men who want to make it through the therapeutic gauntlet must keep their cool, resist any temptation to criticize the system, and, above all, learn how to achieve the psychobabble goal of «transparency» while being anything but transparent about who they are and what they really believe.
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