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Basaglia's international legacy : from asylum to community

Author: Tom Burns; John Foot
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The 1978 Italian Law 180 is probably the most radical Mental Health Act ever passed. It forbade the admission of any new patients to mental hospitals forthwith and called for their rapid closure. The law crowned the work of the charismatic Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia and his 'Democratic Psychiatry' movement. The Italian reforms resulted in arguably the lowest rate of psychiatric beds in any developed  Read more...
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Genre/Form: History
Named Person: Franco Basaglia; Franco Basaglia; Franco Basaglia
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tom Burns; John Foot
ISBN: 9780198841012 0198841019
OCLC Number: 1163780268
Contents: 1. Franco Basaglia: a man, a movement, institutions and outcomes --
2. Basaglia and the British anti-psychiatrists: 1960-70 --
3. Basaglia after Basaglia: recovery, human rights, and Trieste today --
4. Basaglia's legacy and Italian mental healthcare today --
5. Basaglia's international influence --
6. The impact in Latin America of Basaglia and Italian psychiatric reform --
7. The optimism of practice: the impact of Basaglia's thoughts on Brazil --
8. From the asylum to community mental health services: the path to human rights --
9. Spain: the critical movements and the influence of Franco Basaglia and 'democratic psychiatry' --
10. Franco Basaglia's influence on the Greek mental health system --
11. The United Kingdom's rejection of Basaglia --
12. Franco Basaglia: another conspicuous non-event in the history of psychiatry in Ireland? --
13. Asylum: a magazine for democratic psychiatry in England --
14. Visions of another world: Franco Basaglia and German reform --
15. Has the spirit of Basaglia affected polish psychiatry? --
16. A spectre for some, a mecca for others: the impact of Basaglia in the Netherlands --
17. Basaglia in France: the marginality of exemplarity --
18. Borderline Deinstitutionalization: Yugoslav resonance and dissonance with Basaglia --
19. The Trieste model: obstacles to replication in San Francisco --
20. Deinstitutionalization, the welfare state, and social engineering: Basaglia in the Swedish context --
21. Making sense of Basaglia: cross-cutting themes and unresolved issues
Responsibility: edited by Tom Burns and John Foot.

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Basaglia's International Legacy: From Asylum to Community provides an overview of current thinking and the international influence of Franco Basaglia. Examining his influence in Italy and beyond,  Read more...

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