Talk:Psychobabble (disambiguation)

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This page was moved back from Psychobabble (jargon). There was a Psychobabble page maybe since Jan. 03, but the Psychobabble page was moved to _(jargon) after a page was created for the same term in relation to a web forum. The related page was deleted Jan. 21, 2006, [1] so there is no need for a disambiguation page, nor for a parenthetical suffix to this term.

My effort to redirect back to Psychobabble was complicated because a disambiguation page was created Jan. 18th, whereas when I last checked, there was a "no article" message for the term instead. Maybe somebody can now get rid of the (disambiguaton) suffix and get Psychobabble settled back into its old digs.

In the mean time, talk has developed about the origin and meaning of the term, so please visit the [[Talk:Psychobabble_(jargon)}other talk page]] that was created while Psychobabble was wandering around the Wiki. It's probably best to continue discussion here. ProveReader 03:36, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Related pages: Talk:Psychobabble_(jargon)

Of particular interest is the following section duplicated here from the above linked talk page:

[edit] Disputed -- origin of term

The following was inserted directly in the article by 160.79.218.85 (talk · contribs) in this edit:

NO. I COINED THE TERM IN 1975 WHEN WRITING A BOOK REVIEW FOR THE BOSTON PHOENIX OF RUSSELL JACOBY'S BOOK, SOCIAL AMNESIA, IN APRIL 1975. YOU WILL FIND NO EARLIER USE OF WORD, BECAUSE I HADN'T INVENTED IT YET! IN OCTOBER OF 1975, I WROTE COVER STORY "PSYCHOBABBLE" FOR NEW TIMES MAG, THEN PUBLISHED BOOK BY THAT NAME IN 1977 (ATHENEUM). YOU WILL FIND ME PROPERLY CREDITED IN WILLIAM SAFIRE COLUMN, TIME MAGAZINE, AND NUMEROUS DICTIONARIES. FALSE INFORMATION BELOW IS BIZARRELY IMAGINATIVE! MY E-MAIL IS RICHARDR@WORKMAN.COM. THANKS.

There seems to have been a 1977 book written by a Richard Dean Rosen titled Psychobabble; I can't determine whether it was Atheneum that published it. -- Antaeus Feldspar 19:12, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Amazon.com does list such a book [2]