The modern process of a psychiatric institution, established and then denied

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Maria Antonietta Crippa
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/65
Language Italian Pages 7 P. 74-80 File size 562 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2013-065011
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The paper gives a very brief outline of the issues and problems of the psychiatric hospitals examined in the historical study conducted by the Milan research unit of the Prin on ‘Mental hospitals in Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth century. A map of the architectural heritage to acquire knowledge and to make use of them’. It contains considerations on the ‘construction of the history’, identifying, amongst other things, the necessary distinctions between legitimate denial of the structures as psychiatric institutions and the features of the architecture and landscapes and the spatial practices of collective life, in terms of its physical components and the dimensions of representation and imagination, to be recovered from confused damnatio memoriae procedures, which caused serious harm to national culture.

Keywords: Construction of history; architecture as a spatial practice; institution denied

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Maria Antonietta Crippa, Il moderno processo di un’istituzione psichiatrica, affermata e poi negata in "TERRITORIO" 65/2013, pp 74-80, DOI: 10.3280/TR2013-065011