pathologize

/ pəˈθɒlə[dɡ]aɪz /

verb

1. to represent (something) as a disease

   this pathologizing of parenthood

Example Sentences

But therapists shouldn’t pathologize polarization either.

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Therapists often pathologize politics, treating patients with particular viewpoints as abnormal or unhealthy.

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Therapists who pathologize politics teach patients to see their opponents not as neighbors but as diagnoses.

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Further, the main issue with money disruptions, according to Trauma of Money, is that they can pathologize the individual versus seeing the external factors that can cause them to behave in maladaptive ways with their finances.

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“For many folks, this is an important part of their identity that is already marginalized and unsupported, and that can be reinforced by pressures from the medical institution to pathologize it,” Seer told Salon in a phone interview.

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