Having said that, I do think that transsexual people using merely trans is a valid strategy for avoiding the pathologising baggage of “transsexual.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
But surely, by normalising rather than pathologising gay culture you please not only gay respondents, but the 19% of heterosexual viewers that the report reveals are still squeamish about our presence on their screens. ❋ Sue Perkins (2010)
Yet the growing evidence of ignorance and pathologising of "the working-class other" demonstrates that a far more serious deficit of empathy lies in our political elites. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I am always suspicious of pathologising behaviour as if we can't accept variation from the norm without giving it a label. ❋ Sage (2008)
I'm completely in agreement with you on the importance of language and the social and intellectual error of pathologising behaviour and opinions we dislike. ❋ Kay Olson (2007)
Michael's examples of the exclusion of women from the ministry of word and sacrament and the theological pathologising of homosexuals and this, of course, goes for many Protestant churches too. ❋ Mike L (2007)
Which then leads to seeing any other views as somehow “abnormal”, and pathologising of other points of view. ❋ Unknown (2005)
"It's an important historical correction, to allow James Jones his rightful place as one of the earliest mainstream US novelists to try to treat homosexuality sympathetically, without judging or pathologising it," she said. ❋ Benedicte Page (2011)
I am not, in fact, pathologising that, but people have interpreted it as such. ❋ Unknown (2011)
We risk repeating the catastrophe that has resulted from drug prohibition if we keep over-pathologising non-problem drinking and exaggerating its risks. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We hide behind moral condemnation, or pathologising. ❋ Polly Vernon (2010)
Realising that no one is healthy and normal does not have to mean pathologising or medicating them. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In fact some would even go so far as to say that psychological therapies can be hamstrung by medical involvement (pathologising tendencies, certain types of unhelpful power relationship, etc). ❋ Unknown (2009)
More popular than the pathologising of the village, particularly in metropolitan fiction, is a misleading romance about the village. ❋ Unknown (2009)
With this section also comes unconcealed hostility for new evidence-based methods of mental health: psychometric tests are dismissed as "fun as parlour games", cognitive therapy is bizarrely accused of being akin to "brainwashing" and standardised questionnaires as pathologising teenagers. ❋ Unknown (2009)
