REFORM OF PSYCHIATRIC CARE WITHOUT PATIENT'S CONSENT

Abstract

The real legal revolution in healthcare
psychiatric law was the so-called Esquirol Law of June 30
1838 which laid the foundations for the Law of Psychiatry
modern.
This founding legislation has been exceptionally long since it was not reformed for the first time.
times as of June 27, 1990 then more recently with the
Laws of July 5, 2011 and September 27, 2013.
If the fundamental achievements of the Esquirol Law remain, these latest reforms have clearly complicated the legal framework for entry procedures and
output of the device to patients.
This growing complexity is linked to the objective of all of these legislative developments to seek to
combine the safeguard of public order against
dangerousness of certain patients and the guarantee of
individual freedoms of patients against arbitrary internments.