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Conceptualising the psycho-emotional aspects of disability and impairment: the distortion of personal and psychic boundaries
- Authors:
- WATERMEYER Brian, SWARTZ Leslie
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 23(6), October 2008, pp.599-610.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Recent feminist critics of the social model of disability have pointed towards a danger that disability studies may give relatively little attention to personal and emotional aspects of disablist oppression and impairment. The authors argue for consideration of the centrality of the distortion of personal and psychic boundaries as a key aspect of oppressive relational dynamics surrounding disability. Within the observer the disturbing psychic evocations of disability, and related defences, are connected to the maintenance of dynamics of unreal, collusory and alienating modes of relating, which may deprive disabled people of the recognition of subjective experience and personhood. Skewed socialisation of disabled people, involving inter alia the protection of the emotional lives of others, as well as the reality of inaccessible material resources, contributes to the internalisation of disablism and the ideological recruitment of disabled people as complicit in their marginalisation.
Workers with disabilities and the challenges of emotional labour
- Author:
- WILTON Robert D.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 23(4), June 2008, pp.361-373.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper explores the implications of emotional labour for workers with disabilities, drawing on qualitative data from interviews with 59 respondents who had disabilities and who worked in service sector occupations. The analysis illustrates that employer demands for emotional labour may prove difficult for workers with a range of disabilities, including psychiatric diagnoses, learning difficulties and physical impairments. Analysis also points to the ways in which the non-accommodating nature of many workplaces often forces workers with disabilities to engage in "extra" emotion work in the interests of fitting in and concealing/downplaying their impairments.