"armchair psychologist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1977, National Center for Alcohol Education, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Planning a Prevention Program: A Handbook for the Youth Worker in an Alcohol Service Agency, page 41",
          "text": "Alcohol education has turned our son into another armchair psychologist. All my wife and I hear about is how we must strive for open communication. Can't anyone just give him the facts about what alcohol can do to you and leave psychology to the experts?",
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          "text": "This was in 1895. The armchair psychologist thereby acquired a stain of taboo early on, in the childhood of psychology, while laboratory research was the totem it was hoped that psychologists would dance around in the twentieth century.",
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          "text": "Amid a two-hour conversation at Manny's, Axelrod veered from raconteur to philosopher to armchair psychologist to pundit.",
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        "(informal) One who gives psychological advice or speculates about a person's mental health without any qualification to do so."
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