Psychiatryzacja jako mechanizm upośledzania uczniów z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną
Psychiatrization as a mechanism for handicapping students with intellectual disability

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to carry out a review analysis of issues related to the phenomenon of psychiatricization,especially in relation to students with intellectual disability (and, for example, coupledwith autism). Analysis of the literature on the subject shows that for decades, intellectual disabilitywas defined as mental retardation and treated as a reduction in mental ability and was identifiedas mental illness. The fact is that people with intellectual disability may manifest mental disorders(Rola, 2004; Bouras, Holt , 2019), but this does not mean that this condition is common and affectsthe entire population.Psychiatrization is associated with the discourse of, for example, school staff addressed to studentswith intellectual disabilities, with a narrative characterized by the pseudo-medical term:"mentally ill or disturbed." Scientific research proves that those students, due to their specificcommunication code, hidden in behavior (defined as difficult, aggressive, passive, antisocial, etc.),may be treated as mentally disturbed. This type of categorization concerns the phenomenon ofmedicalization in the nature of psychiatricization, where the consequence is stigmatization, handicappingand falsification of students' identities.

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