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A SERBIAN PERSPECTIVE: Monitoring of psychiatric institutions and dehumanizationProf Vladimir Jović,psychiatrist, psychoanalyst
“Strengthening monitoring for prevention of torture and ill-treatment in places of liberty deprivation“International Symposium, Berlin, September 27, 2017
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Background• Center for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (IAN), since
2000 (1997); independent, non-governmental organization for psychosocial assisstance (www.ian.org.rs);
• Torture victims – detainees from concentration camps and prisons in Crtoatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina;
• Since 2004 – human rights are inseparable and indispensable for proper treatment of torture victims;
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Mental health reforms• 2003-2008: Stability Pact MH Project - National MH
Strategy and Action Plan, New MH Law, Pilot CMH Center.
• 2008 – project stopped and Center reduced to outpatient service;
• Change of approach:• From „top to bottom“ to „bottom to top“ – development and capacity
building of users associations, young professionals, media and public.
• From „development of services“ to „human rights“.
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Let’s call it TORTURE• 2008 – UN CAT “Shadow report”;• EC – Progress report
• 2009 – Council for protection of rights of people deprived of liberty (prisons, police stations but also psychiatric hospitals and social institutions)
• 2010 – large EC funded project for prevention of torture and institutional violence covering Balkan countries (“post-war violence”) – Croatia, B&H, Kosovo, Serbia.
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OPCAT in Serbia• September 25, 2003: Serbia signed the OPCAT;• December 1, 2005: Law on Ratification;• September 26, 2006: Serbia became a State Party of the
OPCAT;• July 28, 2011: Serbian National Assembly designated the
Protector of Citizens as the authority performing the duties of the NPM.
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Mandate of the NPM• NPM conducts visits to the institutions
• where there are or may be persons deprived of liberty • in order to deter public authorities and officials from any form of
torture or any other form of ill-treatment, and • to provide direction to public authorities towards the creation of
accommodation and other living conditions in the institutions where persons deprived of liberty are placed,
• in accordance with applicable regulations and standards.• NPM has the right to
• unhindered and unannounced access, at any time, to all facilities;• to have private conversations with these persons, the officials who
are obliged to cooperate in this regard;• to access all documentation relating to any such person;• to make recommendations to the competent authorities.
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Methodological principles• Referential framework is „applicable regulations and
standards“ – i.e. existing legislation and sub-law documents, but also international documents and standards;
• Reports include concrete, operationalized recommendations supported with references to regulations and standards;
• Building of the cooperative relationship with the authorities and employees of the institution; monitoring followed up by „continuous dialogue“;
• Finding „balance“ between the confidentiality and the publicity and transparency of our work.
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Reports on psychiatric institutions
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Messages• Deinstitutionalization is a form of PREVENTION of
TORTURE; even existance of hospitals is “inhuman and degrading treatment”!
• All recomenddations should point to the ultimate goal –closure of hospitals and development of community based services.
• Focus is not on institutions (and their staff), but on the system which is abusive.
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Dehumanisation• Torture, physical abuse, beating – extreme cases which
are rarely documented;• Prerequisite for torture is a dehumanizing context –
observable at different levels, from organization of services, denial of patient’s needs, to biomedical theories implicit within the professional attitude;
• Monitoring includes observation of different indicators of dehumanizing context.
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Refugees – a new challenge• „Balkan Route“ – hundreds of thousands of refugees
passing through the country;• IOM: 246.336 refugees entered Serbia in 2015 (>October
19th)• September 29th-October 12th 2015, 4.300 refugees per
day were coming to Serbia from Macedonia, and 250 to 550 from Bulgaria.
• Highest influx on October 18th when 10.000 people were registered in the refugee camp in Preševo.
• At the present „Balkan Route“ is formally closed, but refugees are coming in continuously.
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Refugees at the checkpoint in Serbia
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Refugees entering the train to Croatia
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Systematic torture?• Around 40% of the participants reported some
form of torture or abuse in transit countries(N=205). (Janković Jovanović, A., Trivunčić, B., & Đurašinović, V. (2015). The demographic picture, the assessment of the legal status and needs as well as examination the traumatic experiences of refugees who are in transit through Serbia.)
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Refugee crisis as a challenge to the organization of services• The services are only partially developed as a response
to the population's needs;• Those who are not able to “adapt” (lower social status, no
support from the family, etc.), will receive the least from the health system;
• How to transform services in a way that will more directly respond to the needs, not only of the refugee population, but the domicile population as well
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Refugee crisis as a challenge to thebiomedical model of disease• It is impossible to understand psychopathology of our
client refugees without taking into account their social context;
• What is perceived as a great “cultural” diversity of refugee population can be probably understood as a part of symptomatic presentation that is modeled by cultural factors, as it was described by the concept of “pathoplasticity”.
• Case A: Afghan boy (15) with self-injuries• Case B: Pakistani boy with seizures