English

Noun

biologization ‎(plural biologizations)

1. assimilation into a biological framework
   • 2015 August 3, Scott O. Lilienfeld et al., “Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 6, DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01100:

     In this era of the increasing biologization of psychology and psychiatry ( Miller, 2010 ; Satel and Lilienfeld, 2013 ), authors may be tempted to assume that biological variables, such as parameters of brain functioning, “underlie” psychological phenomena.