In recent years, disability studies has been driven by a model
of disability which focuses on the social and economic oppression
of disabled people. Although an important counterbalance to a
pathologising medical model, the social model risks presenting an
impoverished and disembodied view of disability, one that ignores
the psychological nature of oppression and its effects.
This innovative work argues that a psychological framework of
disability is an essential part of developing a more cohesive
disability movement. Brian Watermeyer introduces a new, integrative
approach, using psychoanalysis to tackle the problem of
conceptualising psychological aspects of life with disablism.
Psychoanalytic ideas are applied to social responses to impairment,
making sense of discrimination in its many forms, as well as
problems in disability politics and research. The perspective
explores individual psychological experience, whilst retaining a
rigorous critique of social forces of oppression. The argument
shows how it is possible to theorise the psychological processes
and impressions of discriminatory society without pathologising
disadvantaged individuals.
Drawing on sociology, social anthropology, psychology and
psychoanalysis - as well as clinical material - Towards a
Contextual Psychology of Disablism shapes a view of disabled
subjectivity which is embodied, internal, and political. Presenting
a range of conceptual ideas which describe psychological dynamics
and predicaments confronting disabled people in an exclusionary and
prejudiced world, this volume is an important new contribution to
the literature. It will interest students and researchers of
disability studies, including those working within psychology,
education, health and social work.
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