Young Lisa Saville, Berry Jessie
Department of Psychology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Afr J Disabil. 2016 Jul 26;5(1):266. doi: 10.4102/ajod.v5i1.266. eCollection 2016.
This paper elucidates a methodological approach to interview text that tries to acknowledge the psychosocial nature of disability and thereby ensuring that empirical work in disability studies complements theoretical arguments already developed.
The aim of this study is to outline a psychosocial conceptualisation of maternal subjectivity in relation to childhood disability and to apply this conceptualisation as an analytic tool to segments of an interview with a mother of a child with physical and developmental disabilities.
Drawing on psychoanalysis and attachment literature alongside critical social psychology we take readers through the analysis of an interview extract with a particular mother. Through a fine grained analysis, we demonstrate the value of attending to the affective processes in and around the text rooted in the particular intersubjective exchange ('here and how') of the interview and the particular socio-historical context ('there and then') in which the mother, child and researcher are located.
The reading draws attention to discourses that position this particular mother and her children in particular ways while also pointing to investments in these discourses such that these discourses are not purely social but play affective functions.
This paper demonstrates the value of using multiple lenses to read the text, seeking to understand what is going on from within each lens (discursive/social, interpersonal, intrapsychic), while also seeking to disrupt this understanding as we take up the position of a different lens. This approach enables us to hold onto the complexity and locatedness of maternal subjectivity for mothers of children with disabilities.
本文阐述了一种访谈文本的方法论，该方法试图认识到残疾的社会心理本质，从而确保残疾研究中的实证工作能够补充已有的理论观点。
本研究旨在概述与儿童残疾相关的母亲主体性的社会心理概念，并将这一概念作为分析工具应用于对一名患有身体和发育残疾儿童的母亲的访谈片段。
借鉴精神分析和依恋文献以及批判性社会心理学，我们引导读者对一位特定母亲的访谈摘录进行分析。通过细致入微的分析，我们展示了关注文本中及文本周围情感过程的价值，这些情感过程植根于访谈中特定的主体间交流（“此时此地”）以及母亲、孩子和研究者所处的特定社会历史背景（“彼时彼地”）。
该解读提请人们注意那些以特定方式定位这位特定母亲及其孩子的话语，同时也指出了对这些话语的投入，以至于这些话语并非纯粹社会性的，而是发挥着情感功能。
本文展示了使用多种视角解读文本的价值，既要从每个视角（话语/社会、人际、心理内部）去理解正在发生的事情，又要在我们转换到不同视角时打破这种理解。这种方法使我们能够把握残疾儿童母亲的母亲主体性的复杂性和情境性。
