Making Policy for Whom? The significance of the ‘psychoanalytic medical humanities’ for policy and practice that affects the lives of disabled children

Cooper, Harriet (2017) Making Policy for Whom? The significance of the ‘psychoanalytic medical humanities’ for policy and practice that affects the lives of disabled children. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children's Childhood Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 481-499. ISBN 978-1-137-54445-2

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Abstract

This chapter considers the possible role of psychoanalysis in developing a theory of how oppression may be internalised by children during interactions with clinicians, social workers and researchers. How can the clinical encounter become a space for reflection? Can oppressive dynamics within the clinical encounter be altered? Psychoanalysis has often been viewed with suspicion within disability studies: this chapter explores what it might mean to become an ‘ambivalent advocate’ of psychoanalysis as a disability activist.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Epidemiology and Public Health Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Public Health and Health Services Research (former - to 2023) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Gender and Its Intersections Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Mental Health and Social Care (fka Lifespan Health)
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2023 13:30
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2025 01:37
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/91033
DOI:	10.1057/978-1-137-54446-9

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