Abstract
By its very nature and its ideology, occupational therapy draws upon the motivational element of human being, in that it satisfies a basic need to create and at the same time enhance oneself by this very process. Furthermore, it responds to man's preservatory instinct in challenging him to actively participate in his own treatment.
The potential and limits of occupational therapy are those of man himself, and it is in the awareness of these potentials and limits that the occupational therapist can come to treat the individual whether on a physical or psychic level of functioning. Occupational therapy of the future must meet the challenging new problems of medicine placing it in its socio-economic context.
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