Towards a contextual psychology of disablism

"In recent years, disability studies has been driven by a social model of disability, focusing on the social and economic oppression of disabled people. Although an important counterbalance to a pathologising medical model, the social model risks presenting an impoverishing and disembodied view...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Watermeyer, Brian., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge 2013.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Routledge advances in disability studies
Routledge advances in disability studies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Towards a Contextual Psychology of Disablism; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1.Cultural othering and material deprivation; Introduction; Written on the body; Disability: the international development context; 2.Theorising disability: the body, ideology and society; Introduction; The 'medical model'; The 'social model'; Criticising the social model; Prohibiting the personal; The vanishing - and reappearing - body; 3.Psychoanalysis and disability studies: an unlikelyalliance; Preamble; Psychoanalysis and social critique: depoliticisation or subversion?
  • Psychoanalysis and disability: a brief historyA critical psychoanalytic view of disability; Defence mechanisms at work in disablist oppression; Splitting; Projection; Projective identificatio; Reaction formation; Reversal and undoing; Rationalisation; Medicalisation as a defence; Stigma; Liminality; Monstrosity and abjection; 4.Bioethics, disability and the quality of life debate; Introduction; Lives not worth living; Withholding treatment from children and adults; Prenatal testing and abortion; Assisted suicide and the right to die; Eugenics; Hate crime; Disability and the medical encounter
  • 5.Exploring the cultural shaping of socialisation: thepsychological positioning of disabled livesIntroduction; Culture and prejudice; Narcissism, normalcy, modernity and the market; Artistic and literary representations; Charity discourse; Disability and the family; Attachment and infancy; The body, ideology and surgery; Guilt; Identity politics and the movement; 6.Oppression, psychology and change: initial conceptualreflections; Introduction; Psycho-emotional aspects of disability; Internalised oppression; Mirroring; Disability, psychology and development; Disability and psychotherapy
  • 7.Conceptualising the psychological predicaments ofdisablism: disability, silence and traumaIntroduction; Disability and anxiety; Imperative to silence; Trauma and its re-enlivening; 8.Disability and the distortion of personal and psychicboundaries; Introduction; Boundary distortions and being 'an exception'; The relationship of psychic boundaries and anxiety; Being real; Being seen; Manic defence; Solutions, entitlement and passivity; The reality of limited choices; Collusion and complicity; The discourse of independence; Control; Depression; Disabled super-ego; 9.Disability and loss
  • IntroductionThe loss discourse; Acceptance and denial; On being 'un-disabled'; Disability, entitlement and loss; 10.Concluding reflections; References; Index