Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy
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Abstract

The Philosophical Anthropology as Therapeutic Service to the Theme of Disability

Galina I Petrova and Vladimir M Smokotin

The paper advances a thesis that the problem of disability is actively discussed at present not only in medicine, psychology and psychotherapy, but also in philosophy. This is explained by the anthropological turn that the contemporary philosophical thought is taking, and which makes it different from the classical period of development, when it displayed a purely rational and only logical interest in the essence of human being. The philosophical keenness on reason is now complemented with close attention to the problem of corporality, and, therefore, we may speak about including disability into the prerogative of the philosophical research.