Marta Jurczyk

Ambivalence as ( dis)integration category of educator – therapist’s activities at Occupational Therapy Workshop

The following considerations, the difficulty and the ambivalence of the roles undertaken teachertherapist in institutions which are Occupational Therapy Workshops are the result of their own empirical investigations related to the categories of special education and meanings broadcast specific aspects of this experience. In the article quoted statements are from interviews narrative with employees (teachers and therapists), Occupational Therapy Workshops. Ambivalent conditions of work of the teacher-therapist is an issue taken up in this article. The teacher here is involved in a number of educational and therapeutic processes and bureaucratic administration, which constitute the issue of accountability of work he does.

Phantasm of emancipation? Constructing the sexual discourse of people with intellectual disabilities and the axiological emptiness of subjectivity

This text is intended to show the process of shaping the (anti)subjectivity of people with intellectual disabilities by those who are with them in the educational / therapeutic relationship. By the same token - these activities, centered around the categories of sexuality and constructing them, are some sort of phantasm of emancipation. Emancipation itself is rather an open project and the need for continuous re-definition.

Sexual abuse against people with intellectual disabilities – dimensions and faces

This article is an attempt to present the phenomenon of sexual violence against people with intellectual disabilities in three dimensions or in the areas of its functioning. It presents a query of current research on the phenomenon of sexual violence against people with intellectual disability in the perspective of minimizing its significance (1), lack of credibility of people with intellectual disability (2) and experiencing violence from people with whom a person with disabilities remains in a cognitive relationship of dependence (3).