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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pathologize.

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Examples

  • Transgender individuals exploring hormone therapy are not mentally ill and shouldn't be "pathologized," he said.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • Doctoral student Bunmi Olatunji, lead author of the study stated that homophobia is not actually a fear, and therefore it should not be "pathologized," or treated as a disease would be treated.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Aschlafly 2010

  • Doctoral student Bunmi Olatunji, lead author of the study stated that homophobia is not actually a fear, and therefore it should not be "pathologized," or treated as a disease would be treated.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • A new book chronicles how psychiatry has created new mental disorders and "pathologized" normal behavior ...

    unknown title 2009

  • A new book chronicles how psychiatry has created new mental disorders and "pathologized" normal behavior ...

    unknown title 2009

  • A new book chronicles how psychiatry has created new mental disorders and "pathologized" normal behavior ...

    unknown title 2009

  • If we juxtapose this perspective -- namely that one can be too strongly dedicated to healthy foods, resulting in obsession and ostracism -- with the "pervasive poison" litany delivered by Vallianatos and others, it highlights the double-whammy of food toxicity and pathologized awareness, paving a sure-fire path to continued complacency when it comes to the food in our midst.

    Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes Randall Amster 2011

  • Prof. RANKIN: One of the comments from a student was that professors had pathologized my experience as a member of the LGBT community.

    College Campus Not Always Safe For Gay Students 2010

  • There have also been a number of instances in which behavior that threatened the social order was pathologized in the DSM.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • If we juxtapose this perspective -- namely that one can be too strongly dedicated to healthy foods, resulting in obsession and ostracism -- with the "pervasive poison" litany delivered by Vallianatos and others, it highlights the double-whammy of food toxicity and pathologized awareness, paving a sure-fire path to continued complacency when it comes to the food in our midst.

    Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes Randall Amster 2011

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