Abstract
The authors present a contemporaryapproach to the place and function of occupationalrehabilitation and employment in the rehabilitationof schizophrenic patients together with existing experiencesand plans to implement to model in a comprehensiverehabilitation system which is being developedin Cracow. They express their belief that ifoccupational rehabilitation of many schizophrenicpatients is to be ultimately successful special systemsof stable employment must be developed inparallel to those which already exist on the market.It is necessary to develop forms of employmentwhich are both within patients' range and which areable to survive the competition on the free market(for example civic companies –ed.).