title: [Handicap and normality: needs and interventions].
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to restore the concept of "handicap" to its original etymologic meaning as a term that identifies a relationship rather than a property concerning only one subject. If the handicap is not considered only in terms of a single person but of the relationship between him and his environmental context, it is possible to avoid the dual ideological constraint whereby people are condemned to no-way-out disability or society is stigmatized as the receptacle for all ills. The wellbeing of the disabled and society alike can become feasible as a result of the flexible rediscovery of this relationship and the formulation of original new creative approaches to normality.
authors.affiliation: Servizio di Neuropsichiatria Infantile, Ospedale Maria Vittoria, Torino.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stradoni
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Testa
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D012917:Social Adjustment
vernacular_title: Handicap e normalità: i bisogni e gli interventi.