Comment: Making its first appearance in 2011, numbers of days of "hospitalisation for
imminent danger" continue to increase, cutting into the two pre-existing categories, hospitalisations
on the request of a third party (HDT) and hospitalisations on court order (now known as
"hospitalisations by decision of a State representative – HSPDRE). The first is slightly up while the
second is slightly down, but both measurements remain below figures before the 2011 reform.
Hospitalisations of detainees are continuing the upward trend already noted for previous
years. Those for people deemed not to be criminally responsible have levelled off for the first time
since 2011, although it is not yet possible to account for this evolution.
Finally, SAE figures confirm the increase in the total number of days taken up in 2015
(3,916,200 days in 2016 and 3,890,561 in 2015, as against 3,775,187 in 2014). Although figures for
2016 are still below those for 2010 (4,057,542), the downward trend observed between 2010 and 2014
would appear to be easing off.
The total number of patients still seems to be increasing over the long term, from 82,376 in
2010 to 100,858 in 2014 and 109,805 in 2016 (slightly down compared with 2015, when there were
113,854 patients). In any event, this figure should be treated with caution, given the previously
mentioned possibility of one and the same patient being counted more than once.
Expressed as the average number of those present on a given day for treatment without
consent, data for 2016 (total number of days divided by 365) indicates, as in previous years, a little
over 10,000 patients.
Reference: 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.
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