ABSTRACT
The focus, brought about by the ‘Psychology of the Mark’ (see Jones et al., 1984), on the interaction between people who are sighted and people who are blind and partially sighted – potential marker and marked respectively – comes as a distinctive point of departure from some previous contributions from the field of psychology. Understanding the complex realities and possibilities in this interaction requires appreciation of both sighted reactions to ‘the blind’ and the lived experience of serious sight loss, i.e. sight loss to a diagnosable degree: blind, partially sighted or legally blind.
