ABSTRACT

With much contemporary emphasis on diversity in psychology, disability has received relatively little attention. In this chapter, Rohde-Brown explores how radical humanism offers a lens from which to question assumptions as well as to delve into meaning and care in the context of individual, familial, national, and global communities. Social constructions around disability and definitions of the self are considered. Rohde-Brown considers the relevance of humanistic psychotherapy applications that emphasize relationship and honor pluralistic ways of knowing and engaging with lived experiences.