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Rosemary Shakespeare, 1975
| Handicap is a subject we are slowly
beginning to face up to. As a society, we probably congratulated
ourselves when we started to think of handicapped people as ill rather
than as victims of divine retribution. But it is slowly becoming more
clear that sympathy is not what handicapped people want and
institutional provision is not necessarily what they need. Rather we
need to examine our own attitudes towards those who are different from
ourselves; and we need to perceive clearly how we have projected those
attitudes into the provision we make for the handicapped. Rosemary
Shakespeare shows that careful research into a handicapped persons
abilities is not enough. We must discover his feelings about himself as
an individual, his family, and our own reaction to him. This book
provides a careful and thorough and yet compassionate account of what we
know about the psychology of handicap. [From the Editor's Introduction, by Peter Herriot] |
Rosemary Shakespeare was (in 1987) Principal Psychologist at the Manor Hospital, Epsom. She was previously at Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, and at St. Ebba's Hospital, and had worked with handicapped children of all ages.
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