The uniqueness of the handicapped person and the politics of integration

✍ Scribed by François Gaillard

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 456 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-0653
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00156120

✦ Synopsis

We summarize the different legal measures taken during the last few years in Europe to integrate the handicapped person. The problem today is to remedy the inefficacy of official help because of the economic crisis. But the main problem that we underline is the contradiction between politics for a relatively large group of people and for handicapped persons, each of whom is unique in the originality of his psychological development. We take two examples of this uniqueness from several studies of the mentally handicapped. We show that the counsellor must ensure that the fate of the handicapped does not become bound to the politics of integration as defined by limited regulations.