Posted by xbunny on July 19, 2005, at 4:36:15 [reposted on July 21, 2005, at 8:24:53 | original URL]
In reply to Should p-babble be renamed?, posted by ed_uk on July 18, 2005, at 15:57:10
> What do you think????
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> 'Babble' makes it sound like we're all talking rubbish!I reckon your being sarcastic but anyways I thought the term psychobabble was ironic, it means the nonsense that psychiatrists used to talk. I like it. Maybe for more irony it should be changed to what I think was Breggins term 'biobabble' - the language that gets used when discussing psychiatric meds and biological based mental illness. Buns
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