psychspeak
English
Etymology
psych + -speak
Noun
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.
- 1992, Rob Buckman, Yvonne Kason, How to break bad news: a guide for health care professionals (page 83)
Hypernyms
- medspeak