psychspeak

English

Etymology

From psych +‎ -speak.

Noun

psychspeak (uncountable)

1. 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.

Hypernyms

• medspeak