A subject beyond mental handicap. Ethical questions in the clinical approach of mental disabilities

作者：Galien J^*

来源：Pratiques Psychologiques, 2010, 16(1): 49-59.

DOI：10.1016/j.prps.2009.05.003

• Mental handicap
• Psychic care
• Ethics
• Speech act
• Subject

What about possibilities of psychic care when mental retardation hinders considerably capacities of representation? To this question, will be very quickly confronted every clinician who wants to work with mentally handicapped persons. Our meeting with Theo, young adult with Down syndrome, shows us in what to support an ethics in the clinical approach of mental disabilities it's to admit that, however intellectual reasoning level is, a speech act always remains possible. To do it, we don't have to confuse capacities of representation and abstract reasoning level, which particularly lack to person with mental retardation.

• 出版日期2010-3