ABOUT THE RIGHT TO BE A PERSON IN MENTAL SUFFERING: FROM THE SAFETY TO THE PARTICIPATION?

Abstract

The intention to explore the links between carers and
psychiatric patients – or persons in situation of psychosocial handicap – in the prism of their rights for
the everyday life of their interactions is doubtless a real
challenge. It is inevitably a complex mission when we
work into psychiatric institution and when require that
the teams of care get involved both in the reassurance
and in the participation. We intend to question the
aims of this “total institution”. It is clearly interesting
but really difficult at the time of the policy of care that
articulates quality with ethics, and positive treatment
with mental health within the hospital area. Should not
the medical function favor as much the control of the
symptoms as the process of empowerment?