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It is reported that the thesis section is available, to publish abstracts of postgraduate theses in the disciplinary field. Who submits your thesis, must present the title, abstract, key words (include Occupational Therapy), and a summary of 2 to 3 pages of your thesis. And `present it in Spanish, English and / or Portuguese.
Construction of meanings of body experience with people with acquired physical disability.
Abstract
In the context of new theoretical and methodological developments in Occupational Therapy, emergenew qualitative perspectives of research and a social understanding of the discipline, for this reason we
have questioned regarding the signification of body and disability.
The following study depths in the mentioned topic from the point of view of basis (paradigms, approaches
and models) and its expression in Occupational Therapy (OT) practice. In this analysis, we observe how
some ideas are alluded in the union between the objective and subjective, defined objective as natural,
physiological, anatomical aspects, among others, and the subjective as the ideas of the mind-body union,
history of live, social-cultural context, among others.
The present study aims to propose a view of the body as a subjective fact, sociohistorical, assuming that
it does not have a starting point in an abstract substance, separated from the subject himself. Regarding
to this, it is posed the following research objective: To explore which meanings of body experience build
people suffering from acquired physical disability.
The research method used was The Life Stories to build narratives related to the subjective experience
of the body, In regard to the techniques, they were applied in-depth interviews, and data analysis and
production was supported by the grounded theory. The sample comprised a group of adults diagnosed
with acquired physical disability.
The main results are related to the turning points that we identified in the life stories, which at the same
time are fundamental in the construction and significance of body experience.
