is today known as admission to psychiatric treatment on the request of a State representative, see below).
This new category-based classification has therefore made year-to-year comparison difficult.
Comment: Similar to the previous years, the new category for hospitalisation for imminent
danger seems to "bite into" (statistically speaking) hospitalisation on request of third parties (HDT) and
hospitalisation on a court order (by decision of a State representative next - HSPDRE). The three
variables rose in tandem in 2015, with HDTs remaining below the figures prior to the 2011 reform,
while the HSPDRE are rising. The hospitalisation of persons deemed to be not criminally responsible
or of detainees is continuing the upward trend already noted for the previous years. To conclude, the
figures of the SAE are continuing along a downward trend in the total number of days over the long
term (4,057,542 in 2010 versus 3,890,561 in 2015) with, nevertheless, an adjustment in 2015 compared
with previous years (in 2013 and 2014, the total number of days rose to 3,825,757 and 3,775,187
respectively).
The total number of patients still seems to be rising, from 82,376 in 2010 to 100,858 in 2014
and 113,854 in 2015, but these figures should be considered with caution, as there is a possibility of the
same patient being counted multiple times, as explained earlier.
Translated into the average number of those present for a given day for treatment without
consent, data for 2015 (total number of days divided by 365) indicates a little more than 10,000 patients.
References:
Delphine Moreau, 2015, Contraindre pour soigner ? Les tensions normatives et institutionnelles de
l’intervention psychiatrique après l’asile (Forced into treatment? The prescriptive and institutional tensions of psychiatric
intervention after granting asylum). Paris: Thesis by the EHESS.
Magali Coldefy, Clément Nestrigue and Zeynep Or, 2012, Etude de faisabilité sur la diversité des
pratiques en psychiatrie (Feasibility study on the diversity of practices in psychiatry), Paris, Irdes.
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