In an open letter addressed on March 31 to the Minister of Health and Prevention, F. Braun, the National Federation of Psychiatric User Associations (Fnapsy) calls once more for a moratorium on the creation of Psychiatric Intensive Care Units, reversing a request made by the main representatives of public psychiatry in July 2022. According to hospitalthe National Commission of Psychiatry (CNP) has just begun work on this subject.
« (…) We cannot close our eyes to the deployment on national territory of self-proclaimed “psychiatric intensive care unit” structures without legal text governing their operation, nor national validation in terms of good practices. “, warns C. Finkelstein, president of the Fnapsy, which evokes a proliferation of these devices. “By nature, they make extensive use of restraint and isolationbut have no regulatory basis (…) and pose problems, both for representatives of users and parents and for the general controller of places of deprivation of liberty (CGLPL) “. These Usip would be a “ demonstration of creation without prior consultation of unregulated or assessable structures, something unacceptable in law when it comes to places of deprivation of liberty “, raising fears of the return of” flags of strength » you XIXe century in France.
For Claude Finkelstein, projects to create new Usip must be frozen as long as ” the work of a mission to this will not have allowed the publication of the texts governing such services ».
• To read also to go further: The Usip, missing link of a disoriented psychiatry?, Mr. Lacambre, PH, CHU of Montpellier.
