pathologise

(AT 84) Instead of merely being quaint and anachronistic technologies harnessed to an anodyne future, we can re-conceptualise and re-pathologise space vehicles.

Ballardian » Better Living through Psychopathology 2010

We tend to pathologise the forms of happiness we cannot bear.

Over the moon: Adam Phillips on the happiness myth Adam Phillips 2010

There is, I think, something slightly alarming about our rush to drug ourselves out of normal human feeling, to flatten the palate of human emotion, and to medicalise, and pathologise, pain.

Christina Patterson: Heaven knows we're miserable now 2010

It is sad how religions tend to pathologise sex and sexuality into something evil and dirty.

Spark: Conservatives are More Likely to Consume Porn | Mind on Fire 2009

OII, which you have attacked, has learned and understand that there are many working hard inside the intersex community to keep it divided and to pathologise the community rather then working to make it stronger and prouder.

Transsexual Causation, the American Psychiatric Association, and Interpol Zoe Brain 2008

There also exist obsolete manuals that pathologise the propensity of slaves to run away.

Christian Charity Zoe Brain 2007

It would be easy to either deny the whole issue and never deal with problems in a relationship that really would bear dealing with, or to unnecessarily pathologise any relationship with someone of a different race or colour simply because we cannot see beyond the issue ourselves.

Race politics and interpersonal relationships gay person of color 2007

The necklacings of the 1980s were similarly "excused" or explained as grievous expressions of political violence, to be "deplored" but not necessarily to be used either to "pathologise individual members" of a crowd or political mass action. 74 But such a discourse of heroism emerged only after the events of the uprising, perhaps even because of it.

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

There also exist obsolete manuals that pathologise the propensity of slaves to run away.

Archive 2007-07-01 Zoe Brain 2007

In fact, the more I think about it, the more this whole thing of trying to pathologise behaviours such as date rape seems wrong to me.

Yes some guys are assholes, but it’s still your fault if you get raped 2005