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

Harriet Cooper

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-54446-9

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

Harriet Cooper

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children's Childhood Studies
Editors	Katherine Runswick-Cole, Tillie Curran, Kirsty Liddiard
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	481-499
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-137-54446-9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-137-54445-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54446-9
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Cooper, H. (2017). Making Policy for Whom? The significance of the ‘psychoanalytic medical humanities’ for policy and practice that affects the lives of disabled children. In K. Runswick-Cole, T. Curran, & K. Liddiard (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children's Childhood Studies (1 ed., pp. 481-499). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54446-9

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Making Policy for Whom? The significance of the ‘psychoanalytic medical humanities’ for policy and practice that affects the lives of disabled children. / Cooper, Harriet.
The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children's Childhood Studies. ed. / Katherine Runswick-Cole; Tillie Curran; Kirsty Liddiard. 1. ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. p. 481-499.

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