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== Organizing committee == |
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An organizing committee, which constituted in [[Bologna]] the first nucleus group called “Democratic Psychiatry”, consisted of Franca Basaglia, [[Franco Basaglia]], Domenico Casagrande, Franco di Cecco, Tullio Fragiacomo, Vieri Marzi, Gian Franco Minguzzi, Piera Piatti, Agostino Pirella, Michele Risso, Lucio Schittar, Antonio Slavich.<ref name="Donnelly">{{cite book |last=Donnelly |first=Michael |title=The Politics of Mental Health in Italy |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=qYBye7hkuC0C&printsec=frontcover#PPA119,M1 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |year=1992 |pages=119–122 |isbn=0415061768}}</ref>{{rp|119}} |
An organizing committee, which constituted in [[Bologna]] the first nucleus group called “Democratic Psychiatry”, consisted of Franca Basaglia, [[Franco Basaglia]], Domenico Casagrande, Franco di Cecco, Tullio Fragiacomo, Vieri Marzi, Gian Franco Minguzzi, Piera Piatti, Agostino Pirella, Michele Risso, Lucio Schittar, Antonio Slavich.<ref name="Donnelly">{{cite book |last=Donnelly |first=Michael |title=The Politics of Mental Health in Italy |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=qYBye7hkuC0C&printsec=frontcover#PPA119,M1 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |year=1992 |pages=119–122 |isbn=0415061768}}</ref>{{rp|119}} |
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== Approach == |
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Basaglia and his followers deemed that psychiatry was used as the provider of scientific support for social control to the existing establishment.<ref name="Sapouna">{{cite book |last1=Sapouna |first1=Lydia |last2=Herrmann |first2=Peter |title=Knowledge in Mental Health: Reclaiming the Social |url=http://books.google.com/?id=y1-X6iP-m9UC&printsec=frontcover#PPA70,M1 |publisher=Nova Publishers |location=Hauppauge |year=2006 |pages=69–73 |isbn=1594548129}}</ref>{{rp|70}} The ensuing standards of deviance and normality brought about repressive views of discrete social groups.<ref name="Sapouna"/>{{rp|70}} This approach was nonmedical and pointed out the role of mental hospitals in the control and medicalization of deviant behaviors and social problems.<ref name="Sapouna"/>{{rp|70}} |
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== Programme == |
== Programme == |
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Democratic Psychiatry (Italian: Psychiatria Democratica) is Italian society[1] and movement that pushed for the Italian psychiatric reform.[2]: 95 The movement was political in nature but not antipsychiatric in the sense in which this term is used in the Anglo-Saxon world.[2]: 95 Democratic Psychiatry called for radical changes in the practice and theory of psychiatry and strongly attacked the way society managed mental illness.[2]: 95 Democratic Psychiatry was found by Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia[3]: 126 who was its figure-head.[4]: 165
Organizing committee
An organizing committee, which constituted in Bologna the first nucleus group called “Democratic Psychiatry”, consisted of Franca Basaglia, Franco Basaglia, Domenico Casagrande, Franco di Cecco, Tullio Fragiacomo, Vieri Marzi, Gian Franco Minguzzi, Piera Piatti, Agostino Pirella, Michele Risso, Lucio Schittar, Antonio Slavich.[5]: 119
Approach
Basaglia and his followers deemed that psychiatry was used as the provider of scientific support for social control to the existing establishment.[6]: 70 The ensuing standards of deviance and normality brought about repressive views of discrete social groups.[6]: 70 This approach was nonmedical and pointed out the role of mental hospitals in the control and medicalization of deviant behaviors and social problems.[6]: 70
Programme
The programme of Psichiatria Democratica stated in Bologna on the 8 of October 1973 included the following proposals:[5]: 121
- To continue to fight against exclusion, by analysing and rejecting its sources in the social structure (the social relations of production) and in the superstructures (norms and values) of our society.
- To continue the struggle against the “asylum” as the place exclusion finds its most obvious and violent expression, as well as the practical means of reproducing of mechanism of social marginalization.
- To underline the dangers of reproducing segregating institutional structures, even in the mental health services created outside the hospital.
- To make explicit, in a practical way, the link between acting in the specific psychiatric field and the more general problem of medical care, by demanding a unified action (beyond the division of labour and skills) which in the specific struggle for the promotion of mental health involves us in the broadest possible struggle for a concrete and necessary health reform based on, and expressing, a new social logic.
References
- ^ "Società Italiana di Psichiatria Democratica: Sito Ufficiale". Retrieved 30-09-2010.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|datepublished=(help) - ^ a b c Fioritti A., Lo Russo L., Melega V. (1997). "Reform said or done? The case of Emilia-Romagna within the Italian psychiatric context". American Journal of Psychiatry. 154 (1): 94–98. PMID 8988965.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Saillant, Francine; Genest, Serge (2007). Medical Anthropology: Regional Perspectives and Shared Concerns. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford. pp. 125–127. ISBN 1405152494.
- ^ Crossley, Nick (2006). Contesting psychiatry: social movements in mental health. London: Routledge. p. 165. ISBN 0415354161.
- ^ a b Donnelly, Michael (1992). The Politics of Mental Health in Italy. London: Routledge. pp. 119–122. ISBN 0415061768.
- ^ a b c Sapouna, Lydia; Herrmann, Peter (2006). Knowledge in Mental Health: Reclaiming the Social. Hauppauge: Nova Publishers. pp. 69–73. ISBN 1594548129.
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