Disability as desubjectification. Autoethnography of depression
Journal Title: Physiotherapy Quarterly - Year 2016, Vol 24, Issue 1
Abstract
Disability is a label and a significant ‘identity marker’. The objective of the article is a response to an autoethnographic question: how is disability constructed socially. The main character is Irmina who fulfills the definition criteria of disability as she is mentally ill. Irmina writes her diary at a mental institution where she stays during her treatment. She makes notes systematically and guides us through her mind (disabled?) describing situations she comes across. She refers to the matter of medicalization, bio-authority, standards, normality, illness, sexuality, desubjectification by disability and aspects of being a person. The elaboration makes physiotherapists sensitive to the issues of the world experienced (Lebenswelt) by people with various types of depression.
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Agata Krasowska
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- DOI 10.1515/pysio-2016-0004
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