What does deviantize mean?
Deviantize means (transitive) To make into, or begin to treat as, a deviant..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To make into, or begin to treat as, a deviant..
Rather, I am calling attention to the self-imaging challenges of these experiences and to the implications of a process that seems first to deviantize the women's previous actions and then to medicalize this newfound deviance as the "illness" codependency (Asher and Brissett 1988).
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Deviantize means (transitive) To make into, or begin to treat as, a deviant..
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Rather, I am calling attention to the self-imaging challenges of these experiences and to the implications of a process that seems first to deviantize the women's previous actions and then to medicalize this newfound deviance as the "illness" codependency (Asher and Brissett 1988).
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