Main description:

* The book explores the mental health experiences of suffering and healing of accident survivors with locomotor disability in India.
* It provides a holistic understanding of disability experience by delving deeper into the socio-political discourses of having an impairment
* Will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers of psychology, health psychology, disability studies, sociology, mental health, and well-being across UK and US. It will also be of interest to psychologists, counsellors, mental health professionals, policymakers and those interested in disability studies.

Contents:

Note On Terminology to Depict 'Disability'

Acknowledgements

Foreword

1 Locomotor Impairment and Disability: Global and Indian Contexts

2 Methodology: The Challenge of Foregrounding the Silenced Voices

3 Embodied Existence: Attending to Impaired Body and Related Regrets

4 Struggles of Living with a 'Dependent' Identity: Negotiating 'Mobility-related' Difficulties

5 Exclusion of 'Differently Abled' or 'Less-Abled' in the Neoliberal World

6 Experience of Healing Despite Embodied and Stigmatized Existence

7 The Emerging Perspective on Disability

Appendix A

Appendix B: Demographics Form

Bibliography

Index