psychspeak
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]psychspeak (uncountable)
- The jargon used by psychologists or psychiatrists.
- 1992, Rob Buckman, Yvonne Kason, How to break bad news: a guide for health care professionals, page 83:
- The languages of all health care professions - medspeak, nursespeak, psychspeak, and so on - are extremely useful, but they are only intelligible to the initiated.