Surfing the Internet according to psychiatry:
When the psychiatrist is using the Internet it is called: Research.
When the average person is using the Internet it is called: Using the Internet.
When someone with medically unexplained illness is using the Internet it is called: Reinforcement of false illness beliefs.
They do have their own language, don't they? They use the same words as the rest of us, but somehow all the meaning is different. And the complexity of their language! It's not just that there are gender issues you must understand, as in some languages, there's actually a profession/health factor. The words/phrases actually change based on profession or health status. So you need to know who you are talking about -- their profession and health status -- in order to use the correct word/phrase.
Asking questions or questioning authority
Psychiatrists/doctors -- skepticism
Patients -- harrassment
Saying something rude about a health group
Psychiatrists/doctors -- exhibiting care and concern for their mental health
Patients -- issuing death threats
English: The psychiatrist didn't believe what the patient said and claimed the was a lazy hypochondriac who needs to get off his ass, off disability, and back to work.
Psychologese:
The psychiatrist maintained a healthy skepticism about the patient's viewpoint while exhibiting care and concern for his mental health.
English:
The patient did not accept the doctor's psychologization of his condition and told the doctor that maybe she should get his condition so that she would have a better understanding of reality of it.
Psychologese:
The patient harrassed the doctor and issued death threats.
We could probably construct a fairly lengthy translation guide.
They really should stop calling their language English, though. It's causing too much confusion. It needs it's own name and possibly a university department. All psychology and pre-med students would be required to take at least one course in Psychologese. I can't decide, however, whether patients should be required to take a course in this foreign language so that they speak 'properly' to doctors and psychologists, or be forbidden from studying the language because they might figure out what is actually being said and become less compliant.
This is so complicated!