Deepika Sharma

Psychology of Accident Victims in India (eBook, ePUB)

Explorations in Embodiment, Suffering and Healing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the psychological journey of accident survivors with locomotor disability, as they move from processes of suffering to healing. It provides a holistic understanding of disability by looking into the embodied understanding of the body as shaped by the socio-political and cultural discourses around impairment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000814521
• Artikelnr.: 66386067

Autorenporträt

Deepika Sharma is Assistant Professor of psychology at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India. She completed her bachelor's and master's degrees from Delhi University and her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Her research interests are qualitative research, disability studies, critical health psychology, mental health of vulnerable population and Indian psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Note On Terminology to Depict 'Disability'
Acknowledgements
Foreword
1 Locomotor Impairment and Disability: Global and Indian Contexts
2 Methodology: The Challenge of Foregrounding the Silenced Voices
3 Embodied Existence: Attending to Impaired Body and Related Regrets
4 Struggles of Living with a 'Dependent' Identity: Negotiating
'Mobility-related' Difficulties
5 Exclusion of 'Differently Abled' or 'Less-Abled' in the Neoliberal World
6 Experience of Healing Despite Embodied and Stigmatized Existence
7 The Emerging Perspective on Disability
Appendix A
Appendix B: Demographics Form
Bibliography
Index