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His approach to a new interpretation of the old texts was to "psychologize" them.

True to its 19th-century models, the novel doesn't psychologize.

In the early 20th century, "an entire group of reformers began to psychologize the social problems of the day."

Like other researchers on social representations, however, they often psychologize these representations.

Thus it could be argued that children only psychologize as a last resort when they do not have ready access to information about plausible causal mechanisms.

They have a tendency to "psychologize" it and misdiagnose it as depression or apathy.

Such a story may seem familiar, but Deshpande's handling of it isn't: she refuses to psychologize the breakup of the marriage.

"They may propose to catch us, and psychologize us, and make use of us in some way.

But our political discourse is rancorous enough without attempting to psychologize our adversaries out of decent debate.

In comprehending his tireless devotion to this linguistic enterprise, it is tempting to psychologize, or metaphorize, Cassidy's own background.

'Psychologize me.'

The characterization is startling in its blissful refusal to psychologize: "Parfait was . . . simply mad about fighting.

Some of the exercises he did with Polly, who took the opportunity to try to psychologize him and to find out how determined he still was to go after Leviathan.

Refusing to psychologize or preach, the movie would rather enter into Ludovic's frilly fantasy world, involving a storybook princess named Pam, than dwell on the pain and scars of the boy's persecution.

"Distinguished colleagues," he said, "have you ever considered the possibility that it is not that we in the third world somaticize depression, but rather that you in the developed world psychologize it?"

Ever since I arrived in France this last time I have been accumulating doubts about that; and before I leave this sunny land again I will gather in a few random statistics and psychologize the plausibilities out of it.

I don't want to psychologize, but clearly he simply found himself unable to manage this large and difficult subject, floundered, and grasped onto a series of unwise devices that derailed the project--of which the fictional narrators are only one, and not the most disastrous.

In its narrative technique and its refusal to psychologize its characters, as well as in its vivid evocations of Berlin as a modern metropolis, Wadzeks Kampf mit der Dampfturbine has been read as a precursor to Döblin's better-known 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz.