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Forbidden Suffering: The Pollyanna Syndrome of the Disabled and Their Families
Author(s) -
SAETERSDAL BARBRO
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1997.00431.x
Subject(s) - normalization (sociology) , ideology , psychology , sociology , social psychology , psychoanalysis , law , political science , politics , social science
Has suffering become an ugly word in the normalization debate? Are the disabled and their families forced into a Pollyanna 1 culture in order to be acknowledged and accepted in good company as the worthy disabled? This essay poses a controversial question: I would like to start a debate and ask whether normalization also has an unseen, ideological downside.