EXPERIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Keywords:
Disability, therapist, psychologist, negative personal attribute, young ambulant males, physical or mental impairment, precondition, segregation, professional approach.Abstract
This is not a paper about the “psychology of disability” but rather why there seems to be no psychology of disability. It seems to me that an understanding of the psychology of disability must start from the principle that ‘we make sense of our world according to the way we experience it’. If disabled people are denied access to normal social activities we will not only have different experiences to that of our able-bodied peers but we will interpret the world differently; we will see it, think about it, have feelings about it and talk about it differently. The question is, however, “from what stand-point should this psychological experience be interpreted?”
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