摘要：The purpose of the paper is to discuss the need of creating the new psychological discipline – the psychol-ogy of disability. The article considers socio-psychological aspects, contributing to the origins of disability as well as em-phasizes age-related tasks of the development of the disa-bled over the process of his/her life. Trajectory of personal development of the disabled is also presented in the article; peculiarities of the development of me-concept and identity of disabled are considered from different methods and technics; investigation into the aspects of dealing with disability and looking at the illness in terms of formation of self-perception of the disabled
关键词：personality of the disabled; me-concept; iden-;tity of disabled; self-perception of the disabled
