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Medicalization is the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions, and thus become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment.
Dromomania is one of a constellation of social constructs to describe contemporary nomadic lifestyles, along with bum, brodyaga, hobo, vagrant, divagate, itinerant, vagabond, transient, tramp, rogue, wanderer [15] [16] Within this constellation, dromomania is an extreme pathologizing term. [15] [16]
Karen Franklin has criticized use of the term hebephilia for pathologizing and criminalizing an adaptation, [1] arguing that the concept stigmatizes a "widespread and, indeed, evolutionarily adaptive" sexual attraction of homosexual and heterosexual males who, across cultures and throughout history "tend to prefer youthful partners who are at ...
Engraving of an escaped slave, published in 1837. Cartwright described the disorder—which, he said, was "unknown to our medical authorities, although its diagnostic symptom, the absconding from service, is well known to our planters and overseers" [9] —in a paper delivered before the Medical Association of Louisiana [7]: 291 that was widely reprinted.
Feminist therapy aims to move away from pathologizing responses to trauma in favor of framing responses as "survival techniques." For example, in regard to diagnoses that relate to trauma, feminist theory takes issue with the diagnosis Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), a disorder that is often linked to severe childhood trauma. [13]
Example of differential diagnosis. Over the last two centuries, western mental health science has focused on nosology whereby panels of experts identify hypothetical sets of signs and symptoms, label, and compile them into taxonomies such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Many transgender individuals face barriers within the church, such as "fear and unfamiliarity on the part of the congregation, language issues, physical layout that separates people by gender, programs that exclude or separate by gender, pathologizing or designating trans issues as sinful, and overt hostility". [108] [106]
These terms are not synonyms; gender incongruence is merely the state of being transgender (or some other non-cis identity), of which dysphoria is a common but not essential component. Conflating dysphoria (caused by "the mismatch") with the mismatch itself is a frequent mistake, but also a pathologizing and transmedicalist narrative.