Family Research Council, a Religious Right political advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., laid out a five-point plan in 2015 for "responding to the transgender movement." The plan presented obscure and outdated scientific theories in an attempt to
pathologize transgender people.
Chapters discuss how women's street involvement consists of a variety of criminalized activities, including sex trading, that result from cultural and spatial-environmental separation from legal work opportunities and social services; how criminal justice and social services
pathologize women's sex trading and illicit drug use as individual responses to traumatic events that encourage so-called ohigh-risk behaviorso; the limitations on assistance for them; and the contexts for the interaction between women and professionals.
A moral component exists with both, as some see the efforts to establish a diagnostic category as an attempt to
pathologize behaviors that some individuals find distasteful or morally wrong.
When whites outscore blacks and Hispanics, we don't
pathologize white success.
I do not want to
pathologize something that is a very natural and normal part of being in a transition period.
assimilate us into socio-sexual norms and to
pathologize us insofar as
In doing so, she shows how psychiatry positioned itself amidst these debates in an attempt to
pathologize certain behaviours and attitudes and carved out professional space for forensic psychiatry.
The rubric and structure of this free, one-day conference organized by The New School's Diversity Initiatives in Clinical Psychology practiced much of what the title promised: I left feeling fortified by a general refusal to reduce, medicalize, objectify, or
pathologize lived experience.
In both pieces, Ellison identified the white liberal view of blackness as one that uses the guise of white surveillance and sympathy to
pathologize and police black individuals.
Previous scholars have alternatively focused on European discourses about the murderer-cum-artist, or used criminology and sexology to
pathologize serial killers.