Ebook: The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care

"Inspired by the writings of authors such as Primo Levi, R. D. Laing, Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon, and the practices of experimental therapeutic communities in the UK, Basaglia's seminal work as a psychiatrist and campaigner in Gorizia, Parma and Trieste fed into and substantially contributed to the national and international movement of 1968. In 1978 a law was passed (the 'Basaglia law') which sanctioned the closure of the entire Italian asylum system."--Book jacket.;Part one: Gorizia, 1961-1968 (1. Gorizia: a revolution at the edge of Europe ; 2. Anti-psychaitry, criitical psychiatry, movemenmts and working utopias ; 3. Reading Gorizia: sources and narratives ; 4. Basaglia and the British: a missing translation? ; 5. Building the team: the first Équipe in Gorizia, 1961-69 ; 6. Manicomio = Lager: history and politics of an analogy ; 7. Gorizia: the therapeutic community ; 8. Il picchio: the voice of the patients and the 'Archive of the Revolution' ; 9. Anti-psychiatry, Italian style ; 10. One of the wonders of the world" the general meeting ; 11. The genesis of The negated institution ; 12. The negated institution: the 'Bible' of 1968 ; 13. Gorizia and 1968, Gorizia as 1968 ; 14. The incident ; 15. I giardini di Abele and Morire di classe: Gorizia on television and the role of photography ; 16. The end of an era: Basaglia leaves Gorizia);Part two: Beyond Gorizia: the long march (17. Perrugia: the 'perfect' example, 1965-78 ; 18. Parma: the gas-meter reader and the total institution ; 19. Reggio Emilia: out into the territory, 1969-75 ; 20. Gorizia: the second Équipe, 1969-72 ; 21. Arezzo: the Gorizian diaspora ; 22. Trieste: the end of the asyli=um, 1971-79 ; 23. The 180 law: history, myth and reality ; 24. Conclusion)