Amateur Psychologists
The ideas of Freudian psychology have become part of our everyday life. Our
language is replete with cliches that have their origin in Freud's writings. 
There is a surfeit of amateur psychologists who, with celerity, analyze an 
individual's problems from the slightest evidence. Despite their dubious
education and training in this field, they discuss symptoms and cures in a 
most erudite fashion. Should a person express a fear of height, this phobia
is examined; events from childhood are considered germane to the problem.
Is it possible he or she was dropped as an infant? Perhaps something in a
dream is pertinent to explain the feelings of vertigo that accompany height.
For some reason, non-trained people find the Freudian approach to the workings
of the human mind most conducive to their practicing as amateur psychologists.



to upset the apple cart--to overturn or disturb a plan or intention.
It was a bitter pill to swallow when they upset the apple cart and elected
a dark horse.