[Psychiatric rehabilitation of chronic psychiatric and mentally handicapped patients].

Since the beginning of psychiatric reforms, all efforts for the chronically mentally ill have been directed toward a life in dignity in the community. Only in the eighties have such measures been integrated into the concept of psychiatric rehabilitation. In connection with the development of new rehabilitative strategies, this indicates a change in the attitudes toward mentally ill persons. The newly developed measures are directed toward the psychological impairment and the social disability. Today, the obstacles in psychiatric rehabilitation are based mainly on the discrimination against chronically mentally ill compared to physically disabled persons.