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单词 pathologize
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Definition of pathologize in English:

pathologize

(British pathologise)
verb
[with object]
  • Regard or treat as psychologically abnormal.

    most of the older theories pathologize same-sex attraction
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Medication both subdues and pathologizes women's complaints.
    • What role do state institutions play in shaping identities and constructing beliefs about deviance that privilege some groups and pathologize others?
    • Mention your magick, and one therapist will be fascinated, and another will pathologize you.
    • This is pathologizing the trivial and the mundane.
    • Instead, this thinking pathologizes minority cultures by demarcating a center and the ethnic margins.
    • Today's talk of autism is not a new pathologizing of human behavior, just a new perspective on the origin of pathology.
    • These authors and attachment theorists emphasize that one of the most powerful negative effects of patriarchy has been the pathologizing of dependency.
    • Yet this pathologizing of elements of human experience begs the question: What makes heavy drug or alcohol use, long-term sadness, or heightened anxiety a disease?
    • They're guilty of being fooled by her lies, but they're not guilty of pathologizing normal behavior.
    • We need to take psychiatrically labeled people in our communities seriously, not patronize or pathologize them.
    • They pathologize and depoliticize her actions, reducing her self-protection to an overreaction to a sexual encounter.
    • Cultures youth create are criminalized, pathologized, shut down, and silenced, and the powers that be start worrying about losing control of the youth.
    • Some of what would have been considered normal childhood behavior - squirming, being moody - is now pathologized.
    • ‘It's important that we don't pathologize Aboriginal people,’ she adds.
    • She responds by pathologizing rather than exploring the mystery at the heart of her subject.
    • Besides, titles like that would succeed in pathologizing them, and I don't want that.
    • ‘All of the discourse about fatness is about pathologizing the individual,’ she said in an interview, also likening it to the eugenics movement.
    • Some critics even contend that too many characteristics or quirks are being pathologized - labeled abnormal - to make money.
    • Here he found much less intolerance and pathologizing of his behaviors and differences.
    • They cannot champion gun ownership or housewifery because their theories pathologize those choices.

Derivatives

  • pathologization

  • noun
    • I'm torn over the pathologization of high-tech interruptions.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He did not reference the discourses of religion, psychiatry, or biology - discourses that have historically been integral to the pathologization of homosexuality.
      • The sitter's intense glance back at the viewer somehow disallows objectification, as well as any pathologization.
      • Biographical pathologization of Joplin's sexuality also seems linked to selective emphasis, focusing prominently on Joplin's fatal relationship with heroin and Caserta, while minimizing other less volatile relationships.
      • What is important to keep in mind is that the pathologization of sexual deviance is everywhere and at all times a function of power enacted over pleasure.
      • The pervasive pathologization of the healthy workings of the female reproductive system irks me to a great degree, and I applaud the authors for challenging it.
 
 

Definition of pathologize in US English:

pathologize

(British pathologise)
verbpəˈTHäləˌjīz
[with object]
  • Regard or treat (someone or something) as psychologically abnormal or unhealthy.

    most of the older theories pathologize same-sex attraction
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She responds by pathologizing rather than exploring the mystery at the heart of her subject.
    • Mention your magick, and one therapist will be fascinated, and another will pathologize you.
    • Instead, this thinking pathologizes minority cultures by demarcating a center and the ethnic margins.
    • Here he found much less intolerance and pathologizing of his behaviors and differences.
    • Yet this pathologizing of elements of human experience begs the question: What makes heavy drug or alcohol use, long-term sadness, or heightened anxiety a disease?
    • ‘It's important that we don't pathologize Aboriginal people,’ she adds.
    • Besides, titles like that would succeed in pathologizing them, and I don't want that.
    • Today's talk of autism is not a new pathologizing of human behavior, just a new perspective on the origin of pathology.
    • Cultures youth create are criminalized, pathologized, shut down, and silenced, and the powers that be start worrying about losing control of the youth.
    • What role do state institutions play in shaping identities and constructing beliefs about deviance that privilege some groups and pathologize others?
    • We need to take psychiatrically labeled people in our communities seriously, not patronize or pathologize them.
    • Medication both subdues and pathologizes women's complaints.
    • These authors and attachment theorists emphasize that one of the most powerful negative effects of patriarchy has been the pathologizing of dependency.
    • ‘All of the discourse about fatness is about pathologizing the individual,’ she said in an interview, also likening it to the eugenics movement.
    • Some of what would have been considered normal childhood behavior - squirming, being moody - is now pathologized.
    • They cannot champion gun ownership or housewifery because their theories pathologize those choices.
    • They're guilty of being fooled by her lies, but they're not guilty of pathologizing normal behavior.
    • Some critics even contend that too many characteristics or quirks are being pathologized - labeled abnormal - to make money.
    • This is pathologizing the trivial and the mundane.
    • They pathologize and depoliticize her actions, reducing her self-protection to an overreaction to a sexual encounter.
 
 
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