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psychiatrize, v.|saɪˈkaɪətraɪz|
[f. psychiatry, + -ize.]
trans. To treat psychiatrically; psychiatrize away (nonce-use), to do away with by means of psychiatry or its concepts. Hence psyˈchiatrized ppl. a.; psyˌchiatriˈzation.
1929Sunday Dispatch 6 Jan. 3/5 Parents may also be psychiatrised to study their traits and home-life. 1954E. Jenkins Tortoise & Hare vi. 59 He couldn't be psychiatrized against his will. 1964P. Meadows in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 451 Psychiatrized conformity masked as true individuality. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 6 May 565/3 The psychiatrization of ‘perverse’ pleasures. 1978Church Times 10 Feb. 11/1 We have psychiatrised away the Seven Deadly Sins. Pride, anger, avarice, envy, sloth, gluttony and lust have been made respectable. They have become self-fulfilment, stress, incentive, insecurity, inertia, defective metabolism and emotional tension. |