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font-size: 24px; line-height: 27px; color: rgb(237, 0, 0);">The
Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution
in Mental Health Care</h2>
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<div class="teaser" style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px;
font-size: 17px; line-height: 22px;">When the wind of the
1960s blew through the world of psychiatry</div>
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font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">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.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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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 Félix Guattari, Franco Basaglia was
convinced that the entire asylum system was morally bankrupt.
So he decided to abolish it.<br style="margin: 0px; padding:
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This is the first comprehensive account of Basaglia’s
revolutionary approach to psychiatry and mental health. The
book is a gripping account of one of the most influential
psychiatrists of the twentieth century.</div>
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