Abstract

MORAES, Marcia Oliveira; LIMA, Luara Fernandes França  and  MANSOIO, Carolina Cardoso. Variations on seeing and not seeing: two case reports. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2011, vol.63, n.1, pp. 101-110. ISSN 1809-5267.

This paper presents two cases report referring to the subject of visual disability. On one hand, we discuss the western modernity conception of disability, that conceives it as a tragedy, as a difference in relation to a norm. On the other hand, we underline that considering the experience of blind people it is possible to affirm that there are other ways to live without vision, and this is far from the conception of disability as a deficit. Institutional Analysis is the theoretical basis that we adopt in order to discuss these concepts. In the cases reported we pointed to the crisis events which allows us to question the conception of visual disability as a deficit and which enact new ways to experience the lack of one sense. We conclude indicating that to deal with inclusion it is necessary to question the western conception of disability. We also pointed to the possibilities of a psychological intervention which is able to bring into being new ways to live without seeing.

Keywords : Visual disability; Institutional Analysis; Inclusion.

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