Les droits des parents d'un malade psychique, entre toute puissance et impuissance

The French forced hospitalization system on requirement of a third person for psychiatric diseases asks “the third person” (i.e. a close relative) to play the mighty role of depriving from freedom a person he cherishes. Soon after, this parent is departed from the care process and left apart from his loved one while this one is placed in an isolation room. The respect of human rights and of French laws aimed at consolidating them in the psychiatric field, where systematic use of “therapeutic isolation” is practiced, is led upon.