O tratamento psiquiátrico e direitos humanos: uma análise dos instrumentos de controle da internação involuntária

Abstract

The first hospital institutions in Europe had no therapeutic function. People with mental illness were isolated from society and family, deprived even of civil rights. Pinel filed an asylum therapeutic model without considering patients' rights. Italy subsequently consolidated a model-hospital care inclusive. The Declaration of Caracas, in 1990, consolidated this reform proposal, listing the patient's human rights. Other international documents ensued, reaffirming it. In Brazil, the reform was consolidated with the law 10.216/2001. Guided treatment focuses on family and community life that tries to ensure the rights of the person with a mental illness. Despite the brazilian law proposed the dismantling of psychiatric hospitals, provides, in exceptional cases, the involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations In view of this institute, analyzes the rights of patients, especially the right to self-determination through control instruments led by the State Prosecutor and expert review by Committees of Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization. The work presented analyzes the functions of these organs in the State of Ceará, specifically in involuntary admissions during the year 2008, showing the result achieved through the charts.