Psychology of Accident Victims in India: Explorations in Embodiment, Suffering and Healing

In: Critical and Qualitative Approaches to Mental Health Experiences among Vulnerable Groups Ser.

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Note on Terminology to Depict 'Disability' -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Locomotor Impairment and Disability: Global and Indian Contexts -- Locating the Researcher: Theoretical Positioning -- My Father's Accident: Witnessing the Disruption and Silencing -- Disenchantment with the Culture of Mainstream Psychology: The Master's Days -- Discourses Transforming Impairment into Disability Experience: Ableism and Neoliberalism -- Suffering and Healing: Foregrounding Silenced Voices of Disability -- Aspects of Selfhood: Association with Suffering and Healing -- Perspectives on Disability: An Overview -- Anthropology and Disability -- Sociology and Disability -- Rise of Disability Studies -- Critique of Social Model and the Rise of Embodiment Studies -- Psychology and Disability -- Need for an Interactionist Perspective Utilizing the Social Model and Embodiment Perspective -- Disability in Indian Context -- Focus of the Study -- Research Goals and Objectives -- Goals -- Objectives of Suffering -- Objectives of Healing -- Relating the Objectives of Suffering with the Theoretical Framework -- Relating the Objectives of Healing with the Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 2: Methodology: The Challenge of Foregrounding the Silenced Voices -- Paradigmatic Position/Standpoint -- Ethnography -- Field Sites -- Ethical Considerations -- The Participants -- Relevance of Choosing Accident Survivors with Locomotor Disability: Persons with Amputation, Leg Deformity and Spinal Cord Injury -- Relevance of Choosing Two Fields of Study: Kanpur (non-metro) and Delhi (metro) -- Systemic Variations -- Disability Culture -- Getting Closer to the Participants' World -- Methods of Data Collection -- Semi-Structured Interviewing -- Interview schedule.