I played amateur psychologist --professors so often are required to provide emotional support to their students and I confess I did a fine job of it.

Now you want me to play psychologist.

I didn't come down here for you to play amateur psychologist.

It's become - if we may play amateur psychologist - about disproving the notion that four 1980's championships in Los Angeles were pure Magic.

Something was wrong with Murphy, and I hardly had time to play dime-store psychologist, trying to help her.

Crustaceans aside, it is easy enough to play psychologist.

"I do hate it when you play psychologist, Alex. You didn't make it in that world for a good reason."

I'm playing amateur psychologist, but everybody's trying to figure this out.

"Then I will thank you," he said stiffly, "to play amateur psychologist on your own time."

Giamatti says he doesn't know, and won't play clinical psychologist.