[Rehabilitation through social communities. Continuing the contribution to Die Rehabilitation 15 (1976) 207-216...

The author holds the following theses: Rehabilitation is characterised by stigmatisation and isolation rather than by a holistic approach aimed at achieving partnership and through their own life performance, as a rule give an example of a social community: there are no marginal groups, unless the individual and his or her family conceive themselves as outsiders or marginal groups, and choose this situation as outsiders or marginal groups. and choose this situation to continue. What is desirable, however, is that joint efforts be made towards partnership. The route to reaching this aim --implies new standards in the sense of a higher degree of scientific orientation; --utilises life as a vehicle of cognition, and as an experimental activity undertaken by the cognizing individual; --is being put to the test of reality in the examples for integrated group cooperation within "workplace families", conceived as the basis for the development of "neighbourhood families", local groupings and so on in close interrelation with existing facilities and services.