Lecture celebrates Anti-Asylum Fight Day

With the objective of reflecting the Anti-Asylum Fight, a movement celebrated on May 18th, the Psychology course of Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública takes place next Friday, May 16, at 7:30 am, at the Academic Unit Brotas, the lecture “Anti-Asylum Fight in Mexico: Hospital Dia”, with the Mexican psychiatrist Dr. Alejandro Patino Roman.

The event is free and open to the general public. On the occasion, the doctor will present the concept of Day Hospital and how this experience has been happening in his country of origin. Among the points highlighted by Dr. Alejandro Patiño Román is the humanized treatment offered by this model that welcomes patients with mental disorders only during the day for group or individual therapies, work, leisure and sports activities, with the main "objective to rehabilitate patients with mental disorders to live with their families and society, and for this they need to be clinically stable and pharmacologically well-controlled. ".

Regarding the Anti-Asylum Fight, Dr. Alejandro highlights it as valid, considering that the old-fashioned model of confinement socially marginalizes the patient with mental disorder. "I think that these people should receive treatment just like any other patient with a chronic disease, and therefore, be cared for by the doctor with understanding and dignity. Going deeper, the problem is not linked to mental health exactly, but to social variables, economic and political and, therefore, this struggle is radically deep, as it refers to a global conscience to obtain the recognition, in a complex way, of what is mental illness and the validity of the human rights of the psychiatric patient".

Lecture: Anti-Asylum Fight in Mexico: Hospital Dia

Order date: 16 May 2014

Open Hours: 7h30min

Location: Academic Unit Brotas - Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública

Address: Av. D. João IV, 275, Brotas

Information: 71 3276 8260