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85:. With a group of young physicians not yet influenced by traditional psychiatry β€”as well as psychologists, volunteers and studentsβ€” Basaglia started an intense project for the theoretical-practical criticism of the institution of the asylum. At that time, there were approximately 1,200 patients in the San Giovanni psychiatric hospital, most of them were under compulsory treatment. From 1971 to 1974, the efforts of Franco Basaglia and his equipe were directed at changing the rules and logic which governed the institution, putting the hierarchy in question, changing the relations between patients and operators, inventing new relations, opportunities and spaces, and restoring freedom and rights to the inmates. 89:
value to individual life histories. Any form of physical containment and shock therapy was suppressed, the barriers and mesh which had enclosed the wards were removed, doors and gates were opened, compulsory hospitalizations became voluntary and definitive ones were revoked, thus the patients regained their political and civil rights.
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Giovanna Russo and Francesco Carelli state that back in 1978 the Basaglia reform perhaps could not be fully implemented because society was unprepared for such an avant-garde and innovative concept of mental health. Thirty years later, it has become more obvious that this reform reflects a concept of
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In the hospital being transformed, guardianship was substituted by care, institutional abandonment by the full assumption of responsibility for the patient and their condition, while the negation of the individual through the concept of illness-danger was replaced by the conferring of importance and
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in 1978 and terminated with the very end of the Italian state mental hospital system in 1998. Among European countries, Italy was the first to publicly declare its repugnance for a mental health care system which led to social exclusion and segregation. The psychiatric reform was also a consequence
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The reform was directed towards the gradual dismantling of the psychiatric hospitals and required a comprehensive, integrated and responsible community mental health service. The object of community care is to reverse the long-accepted practice of isolating the mental ill in large institutions, to
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modern health and social care for mental patients. The Italian example originated samples of effective and innovative service models and paved the way for deinstitutionalisation of mental patients.
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a very careful integration between the various facilities within the geographically based system of care, the same team providing outpatient as well as inpatient and community care.
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The closure of various hospital settings became possible because of constant reduction of in-patients number which in the course of years had the following dynamics:
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promote their integration in the community offering them a milieu which is socially stimulating, while avoiding subjecting them to too intense
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questioned the basis itself of psychiatry. After working with Edelweiss Cotti in 1968 at the Centro di Relazioni Umane in
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a relatively low dose of inpatient care, avoiding treating any new patients in mental hospital;
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is the reform of psychiatry which started in Italy after the passing of
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became the director of the provincial psychiatric hospital located in
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Burti L. (2001). "Italian psychiatric reform 20 plus years after".
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specified the main characteristics of the Italian experience:
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community care as the principal component of the system;
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Index

Basaglia Law
Giorgio Coda
Alberto Papuzzi
social pressures
Giorgio Antonucci
Cividale del Friuli
Imola
Franco Basaglia
Trieste
Michele Tansella
Basaglia Law
Deinstitutionalisation
Giorgio Antonucci
Giorgio Coda
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
doi
10.1034/j.1600-0447.2001.1040s2041.x
PMID
11863050
S2CID
40910917
Mental health at the crossroads: the promise of the psychosocial approach
ISBN
978-0-7546-4191-9



"Community psychiatry without mental hospitals β€” the Italian experience: a review"
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