Journal title PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Author/s Paolo Francesco Peloso
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/4
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 593-612 File size 90 KB
DOI 10.3280/PU2022-004005
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Some problems addressed in the book Ritorno a Basaglia? La deistituzionalizza¬zione nella psichiatria di ogni giorno ["Back to Basaglia? The deinstitutionalization in everyday psychiatry"] (Peloso, 2022) are discussed. The issue of whether it may be useful for today Italian psychiatry to look back to Basaglia and more generally to the years of struggle that led to the promulgation of Law 180/1978, and whether this is still possible in Italy and in a world that have changed in so many respects, is addressed at three levels: the levels of the mental health professional, of psychiatric services, and of social inclusion. It is concluded that certainly the egalitarian, libertarian and solidarity instances that favored deinstitutionalization and the movement against exclusion seem to have lost strength today, and this makes everything more difficult, especially at the third level. However, probably this is not yet true to the point of inhibiting personal responsibility and the "choice" that each one can make: therefore, Basaglia and his years remain, in many respects, an important point of reference both for mental health professionals and the organization of mental health services.
Keywords: Franco Basaglia; Law 180/1978; Mental Health Services; Psychiatry and society; History of psychiatry
Paolo Francesco Peloso, "Ritorno a Basaglia": una prospettiva possibile per la salute mentale? "Back to Basaglia": A possible perspective for mental health? in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 4/2022, pp 593-612, DOI: 10.3280/PU2022-004005