[Management in the intensive care unit: between indications, constraints and contradictions]

A patient with a pervasive developmental disorder was treated in the intensive care room for over a year; the freedom to come and go is an inalienable human right. How can the gap between legislative framework and the world of psychotic deficit be filled? The apparent contradiction between appropriate psychiatric care and the clinical condition of a patient with severe TED and intellectual deficit and the recommendations of the High Authority of Health is addressed. Narrative account in this context.