Projects
Hospitalization by what rights?
Project
The law of July 5, 2011, concerning the rights and protection of individuals undergoing psychiatric care and the modalities of their support, establishes that involuntary hospitalizations are subject to the control of a judge for liberties and detention for all hospitalizations exceeding twelve days, and then every six months. Ten years after its promulgation, what can we say about its effects? How are the rights and freedoms of individuals under psychiatric care protected in this system? What legitimacy does psychiatry still have to hospitalize individuals against their will? Does this recent access to rights for users reveal an erosion of medical power? What representations of mental illness do magistrates and lawyers convey during hearings? What specific features does the French system possess?
These are some of the questions that this book undertakes to answer based on a thorough sociological investigation conducted from 2015 to 2020 in psychiatric institutions, courts, and public administrations by researcher Tonya Tartour, political scientist.
The methodology involved work on archives, interviews with stakeholders, and observations of hospital work and court hearings.
Client
Tonya Tartour is an Associate Researcher specialise in Psychiatry and Mental Health, Public Policies, Sociology of Regulation.
Tonya Tartour
Associate Professor in Sociology at Sciences Po Bordeaux
Artist
Alice Milani studied painting and printmaking techniques in Torino Academy of Fine Arts and in ENSAV in Brussels. She lived in Belgium several years, then came back to Pisa.
She started self publishing comics in 2009. Since then she published three biographic graphic novels: Wisława Szimborska (2015, BeccoGiallo Editore), Marie Curie (2017, BeccoGiallo Editore, translated into French, Spanish, Korean and English), and in 2019 she published Università e pecore, (Feltrinelli Comics) about the life of Don Lorenzo Milani, an Italian politically controversial priest from the sixties. In 2018 she participated in the ERCcOMICS project with a webcomic about ayurvedic medicine. She also created a short story about Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevska, which appeared in Comics & Science, a CNR funded comics magazine. Her parents are both scientists (my mother is a physicist, my father was a mathematician) and they were my scientific consultants in the writing of the book about Marie Curie.
