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The man who closed the asylums. Franco Basaglia and the revolution in

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

The man who closed the asylums. Franco Basaglia and the revolution in

By John Foot

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Asylums incarcerate the "mad" and exclude them from society. Gorizia, a grim mental asylum, right on the edge of Italy, miles from anywhere, was no exception. Yet, when a new director was appointed in 1961, everything changed. Drawing on the writings of Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault, interested in experimental "therapeutic communities" in the UK, the work of Frantz Fanon, and the ideas linked to radical psychiatrists like Felix Guattari, Franco Basaglia was convinced that the entire asylum ...Show more

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2015

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The man who closed the asylums. Franco Basaglia and the revolution in

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