A Brief History of Psychotherapy and Physical Disability

Grzesiak, Roy C.; Hicok, Dina A.

doi:10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1994.48.2.240

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“…Psychoanalytic theorists have gone beyond the descriptive approach in trying to understand the reactions of grieving individuals (Thurer, 1985). The psychoanalytic model is largely based on Freudian theory beginning with "Mourning and Melancholia" (Osterweis et al, 1984;Zisook & Devaul, 1985) Freud proposes the existence of intrapsychic processes that help a person to come to terms with loss (Grzesiak & Hicok, 1994). The pain of mourning is regarded as the inevitable companion of the persistent and insatiable yearning for the lost object (Bowlby, 1961).…”

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“…Although Freud focused on the loss of a loved object, Grzesiak and Hicok (1994) suggest the process can also be applied to the loss of a body part or body function. Freud (1917/1957) describes mourning as a gradual, yet sometimes stormy process.…”

Section: Freud and Disability Several Statements Freud Madementioning

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“…It involves an initial denial of the loss followed by acceptance of the loss over time. Depression is thought to be the result of reactions to the loss (Grzesiak & Hicok, 1994). According to Freud, unfavorable life events do not cause neurosis, but it is a more likely the trauma brings forth latent neurotic tendencies.…”

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“…If this is true, a person suffering from an accident is not depressed as a result of the accident itself, but because of what the pre-existing neurotic tendencies triggered by the accident (Cubbage & Thomas, 1989;Grzesiak & Hicok, 1994).…”

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“…Freud's concept of castration anxiety is often regarded as essential to the understanding of disability by the proponents of psychotherapy (Cubbage & Thomas, 1989;Grzesiak & Hicok, 1994). Freud used the term castration anxiety to describe any separation from the body.…”

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An Integrated Approach to Theories of Loss and Adaptation to Disability

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2000

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Title: An Integrated Approach to Theories of Loss and Adaptation to Disability.Many theories have been proposed that attempt to explain response and adaptation to loss. However, no one theory has been shown to be universally applicable to all individuals suffering a loss. This paper presents an overview of many of these theories, paying special attention to the relationship between the theories of loss and adaptation to disability. The theories include the psychoanalytic model of loss, stage models of adaptation to loss, the value change theory of acceptance of loss, chronic sorrow, the cognitive adaptation theory, the stress and coping model, developmental theory, and the existential perspective on loss and grief. The possible influence that factors such as age, gender, culture and variables specific to disability may have on loss are also discussed. 2 A new conceptualization of loss is introduced that tries to integrate many of the key ideas of these theories. This integrated approach takes into account the unique situation of each person, emphasizing the interaction between environmental and personal factors in adapting to loss. The model contends that due to the uniqueness of the individual, to the many possible combinations of environmental and psychological factors, and to the nature of the loss itself, any one or combination of loss theories could be in effect for any single loss. The intent of this thesis is to encourage the reader to become familiar with different perspectives on the subject of loss and grief to help select the method that best fits the individual situation of the person seeking counseling.

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Section: Freud and Disability Several Statements Freud Madementioning

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Section: Freud and Disability Several Statements Freud Madementioning

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Spinal Cord Injury

Elliott

Rivera

2003

Handbook of Psychology

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Spinal cord injury is a high‐cost, low‐incidence neurological disability. This condition has a significant impact on the individual, the family, health care service delivery systems, and society in general. Medical advancements have improved the likelihood of survival following spinal cord injury, and estimated life spans for persons with this condition now approach life expectancies of other people. Unfortunately, the costs associated with ongoing care and assistance escalate as financial support for these services decline. In this chapter, we review the major aspects of spinal cord injury and current information about the condition and its concomitants. We will then provide a model of adjustment and present evidence concerning the major components of the model. We consider the alternative views of adjustment, assistance and service delivery espoused by health care programs, professionals, and by consumers and their families. We conclude with an overview of intervention strategies and issues in health and public policy that affect persons with SCI.

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Different bodies: The problem of normativity in body psychotherapy

Totton¹

2019

Psychother Politics Int

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This paper primarily addresses the people of effectively mainstream embodiment who make up the bulk of the body psychotherapy profession. It suggests that we need to explore and deconstruct this subject position and to think about how it may set up oppressive assumptions about our task and how we carry it out, as well as about who is capable of becoming a practitioner. Drawing in particular on disability theory, I aim to bring into question notions of "normal," ideal or optimal embodiment and to argue for a focus instead on the real, imperfect, damaged and unique bodies which we encounter in our practice.affordances, body psychotherapy, crip theory, disability, misfitting, normativityIt's not our bodies that need curing. Rather, it is ableism . . . that needs changing. (Eli Clare, 2018, p. 91) Someone with whom I have a supervisory relationship, and who leads a body psychotherapy module on a training course, has recently had a wheelchair user attending the module. How this affected them, the trainee and the module is not my story to tell, but working with this in supervision has opened me up to what increasingly strikes me as a major difficulty in the theory and practice of body psychotherapy-not a new difficulty, but one which has always been there and has been insufficiently examined. I will call this the problem of normativity, by which I mean the explicit or implicit presentation of a normal, ordinary, "proper" body against which actual bodies may be found wanting in a variety of ways.I am choosing to present this here, rather than in a specialist body psychotherapy journal, because I think that essentially the same problem-an intensely political one-of a "normal" yardstick occurs right across the range of psychotherapy modalities. In the body psychotherapy context the issue is amplified in ways which make it, helpfully, more visible, just as a body is inherently more visible than a mind (though no less subject to misperception). So, the following discussion should also be relevant for practitioners who do not work in a consciously embodied way.

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A Brief History of Psychotherapy and Physical Disability

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An Integrated Approach to Theories of Loss and Adaptation to Disability

An Integrated Approach to Theories of Loss and Adaptation to Disability

Spinal Cord Injury

Different bodies: The problem of normativity in body psychotherapy

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