pathologise
Label as diseased
Pathologise is the British spelling of pathologize, meaning to view or characterize something as a disease, disorder, or abnormality.
The term is most often used critically, when someone believes that normal variation or behavior is being treated as illness: Critics argue that psychiatry tends to pathologise ordinary sadness.
To pathologise a condition or trait is to frame it in medical terms, often with the implication that such framing is unwarranted or harmful.
Identification of illness
- symptomsIndicators of disease
- clinicalEmotionally detached, medically precise
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
- evaluationDetermining worth or quality
examination · disorder · syndrome · condition · abnormality · dysfunction · screening · differential
Finding harmless conditions unnecessarily
- medicalizationReframing problems as disorders
- labelingAssigning identifying markers
- biomedicalConcerning biology and medicine
- reductionismExplaining wholes through parts
biopsychosocial · medical intervention · doctor-patient relationship · DSM · classification · institutionalize · medical ethics · healthcare system
Painful awareness of failure
- marginalizeTreat as insignificant
- ostracizeExclude from a group
- discriminateTreat unequally based on category
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
alienate · vilify · demonize · scapegoat · delegitimize · other · judgmental · bias
diagnosis
Identification of illness
- symptomsIndicators of disease
- clinicalEmotionally detached, medically precise
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
evaluation · examination · disorder · syndrome · condition · abnormality · dysfunction · screening · differential · criteria
overdiagnosis
Finding harmless conditions unnecessarily
- medicalizationReframing problems as disorders
- labelingAssigning identifying markers
- biomedicalConcerning biology and medicine
reductionism · biopsychosocial · medical intervention · doctor-patient relationship · DSM · classification · institutionalize · medical ethics · healthcare system · treatment
shame
Painful awareness of failure
- marginalizeTreat as insignificant
- ostracizeExclude from a group
- discriminateTreat unequally based on category
prejudice · alienate · vilify · demonize · scapegoat · delegitimize · other · judgmental · bias · defame
pathologisenormalise
Make consistent or typical
normalize · accept · validate · destigmatize · affirm
pathologisecontextualize
Place within surrounding circumstances
- pathological liarOne who deceives compulsively
- speech pathologistsExperts treating communication disorders
- pathological lyingCompulsive, repetitive fabrication of falsehoods
- forensic pathologistDoctor investigating suspicious deaths
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