"I just hope he dies before me" - Lay knowledge and experience of schizofrenia by ill people and their relatives in Portugal

Silva, Luísa Ferreira da; Alves, Fátima

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Silva, Luísa Ferreira da

Alves, Fátima

Abstract(s)

Within the socio-political paradigm, the history of Portuguese mental health policy emphasises Portugal as a semi-peripheral society. In a context of a welfare society replacing the State, community mental health care is supported by the family under whose protection and control mentally-ill people are relegated to a chronic status and socially excluded.