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 .
Anagrams
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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
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