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- verb Present participle of
pathologize .
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Examples
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This issue can be traced to the 'pathologizing' of the male personality.
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In the next 100 days, elected pols will need to get out of the trap of 'pathologizing' the poor -- i.e. painting those in poverty as somehow lost in the sea of some other America.
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As soon as you employ the interesting linguistic tactic of calling every unwanted aspect of life abnormal, you are on the road to pathologizing everyday life.
Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: Does Depression Exist? Ph.D. Eric Maisel 2012
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As soon as you employ the interesting linguistic tactic of calling every unwanted aspect of life abnormal, you are on the road to pathologizing everyday life.
Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: Does Depression Exist? Ph.D. Eric Maisel 2012
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As soon as you employ the interesting linguistic tactic of calling every unwanted aspect of life abnormal, you are on the road to pathologizing everyday life.
Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: Does Depression Exist? Ph.D. Eric Maisel 2012
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Padme and since life is threatened several times during the film, the authors seem to be more or less pathologizing normal.
Master Skywalker | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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And so I wonder what, if anything, society gains by pathologizing mythos.
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During the feminist movement of the 1960's and 70's, the pathologizing and medicalizing of woman's sexual experience was challenged and resisted.
Tamara McClintock Greenberg: Woman Behind Tamara McClintock Greenberg 2012
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Many would say that you're just pathologizing a downtrodden community.
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During the feminist movement of the 1960's and 70's, the pathologizing and medicalizing of woman's sexual experience was challenged and resisted.
Tamara McClintock Greenberg: Woman Behind Tamara McClintock Greenberg 2012
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