Changes in psychosocial functioning of people with psychic and intellectual disabilities and their personal creativity
For many years, scientists of various fields and disciplines have been trying to explain the phenomenon of the creativity of the mentally ill, as well as intellectually disabled people. The communicative role of patients’ creativity is not reduced only to contact between the patient and his therapist. Creativity is becoming increasingly important for an ill person and plays a significant role in her contact with society, helping her to break the barriers of social isolation. People’s with disabilities creatiwity could become a source of change in their psychosocial functioning. They are no longer perceived as made up of his illness, but of the creativity of their own works.
