Can the problems of urban poverty be blamed on individual pathology?

To its credit, the script, by Scott Marshall Smith, doesn't pretend that racism is a matter of individual pathology.

Very rarely is individual pathology made accessible.

They advocate for counseling that focuses on how patients respond to pressures and expectations rather than on addressing the individual pathology of disordered eating.

These feelings are reinforced by dominant social ideas of individual pathology, that is, if something is going wrong in their lives it must be their own fault.

The actualizing tendency rejects the explanations of individual pathology, of inherent badness, laziness or inadequacy.

The conceptual focus of these treatments is the child's individual internal pathology and past caregivers rather than current parent-child relationships or current environment.

Distinguishing between individual pathology and the socially acceptable preoccupation with tainted food, insidious fat content, environmental illness and the like seems far more daunting these days.

In turn, those strategies of survival justified further discipline, strictures rationalized by the organization as a result of the assumed individual pathology of the lower ranks.

The y-axis rates them from "goal driven killer" to "psychopathic murderer", while the x-axis measures individual pathologies.