Richard Dean Rosen
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Confession, alas, is the new handshake.
—Richard Dean Rosen, Psychobabble, 1977
Posted on March 12, 1999 at 11:01 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.
—Richard Dean Rosen, Psychobabble: Fast Talk and Quick Cure in the Era of Feeling
Posted on July 20, 2001 at 8:35 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Psychobabble is . . . a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.
—Richard Dean Rosen, Psychobabble: Fast Talk and Quick Cure in the Era of Feeling
Posted on May 24, 2001 at 9:46 AM
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