Abstract
The Criminal Code and the Criminal Execution Law prescribe the compulsory hospitalization, following the logic of internment as a rule, in disagreement with the model of attention in mental health disciplined by the Psychiatric Reform Act. It is necessary to reflect upon this intervention and consequences in relation to the patients of the Custody and Psychiatric Treatment Hospitals (HCTP). Thus, the research conducted aimed to identify the existing difficulties for social reintegration of HCTP/Bahia patients. In order to do so, through exploratory and descriptive studies, a quantitative and qualitative research was executed regarding the effects of the compulsory hospitalization implemented in accordance with the criminal legislation at HCTP/Bahia. It was concluded how urgent is the revision of the current model of criminal law intervention, due to the difficulties to guarantee patients freedom and their reintegration, and the need to adapt the legal treatment of the mentally ill persons to the mental health policy outlined in the Psychiatric Reform Law.
Compulsory hospitalization; psychiatric reform; custody and psychiatric hospital