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Medicalize vs Psychiatrize - What's the difference?

medicalize | psychiatrize | Hypernyms |

Psychiatrize is a hypernym of medicalize.



In transitive terms the difference between medicalize and psychiatrize

is that medicalize is to make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine while psychiatrize is to make psychiatric; to bring into the realm of psychiatry.

medicalize

English

Alternative forms

* medicalise

Verb

(medicaliz)
  • To make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine.
  • * 1996 , Dion Farquhar, The Other Machine: Discourse and Reproductive Technologies
    • The sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned medicalized pornography into education...
  • * 1999 , Judith Rooks, Charles S Mahan, Midwifery and Childbirth
    • Early in this century American obstetrics became committed to a path that has led to a highly medicalized approach to the care of women during pregnancy...
  • * 2004 , Leonore Tiefer, Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays
    • ...sexual problems would have to be repackaged and medicalized .

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    psychiatrize

    English

    Verb

    (psychiatriz)
  • To make psychiatric; to bring into the realm of psychiatry.
  • * 1974 , André Haïm, Adolescent suicide (page 48)
    • On the other hand it is just as important not to psychiatrize youth as a whole, to avoid over-hasty interference that will run counter to the aim in view by 'freezing' or even preventing the progressive spontaneous process.
  • * 2007 , Charles Webel, Johan Galtung, Handbook of peace and conflict studies (page 61)
    • The mediator may be tempted to: • Psychiatrize the parties, labelling them as mentally ill.

    Hypernyms

    * medicalize