Towards a contextual psychology of disablism / / Brian Watermeyer

• Autore: Watermeyer Brian
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.9/16
• Soggetto topico: People with disabilities - Psychology; Prejudices
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 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 and develops bi-directional conceptual links between culture and disabled subjectivity through the mechanisms of lifelong socialization. It is designed to explore individual psychological experience, whilst retaining a rigorous critique of social forces of oppression; and to avoid the pathologisation of disadvantaged individuals, whilst exploring the psychological processes and impressions of discriminatory society. Drawing on sociology, social anthropology, psychology and psychoanalysis as well as clinical material from his own practice, Brian Watermeyer 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"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: Towards a contextual psychology of disablism
• ISBN: 1-283-52143-1; 9786613833884; 0-203-11276-8; 1-136-28382-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461802203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge advances in disability studies.