Psychobabble

Psychobabble was a dismissive term for psychological terminology.

In his courtroom, Q gave examples of the events the Q Continuum had observed while watching Jean-Luc Picard, including the captain "listening to Counselor Troi's pedantic psychobabble". (TNG: "All Good Things...")

In 2375, not wishing to be psychoanalyzed, Garak asked Ezri Dax to "Spare me your insipid psychobabble". (DS9: "Afterimage")

In 2376, Dr. Lewis Zimmerman dismissed Troi's attempts to mediate an argument between him and the EMH by telling her to spare them her psychobabble. (VOY: "Life Line")

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