Journal title PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Author/s Alberto Merini
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/2
Language Italian Pages 5 P. 324-328 File size 34 KB
DOI 10.3280/PU2014-002007
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The author, also on the basis of his past experience as director of a Department of Community Psychiatry, discusses the presence of "useless suffering" (Levinas, 1982) and of "dehumanization" (Volpato, 2013) in many instances of traditional hospital psychiatry. The psychodynamic orientation of a Department of Community Psychiatry - with an emphasis on the patient-therapist relationship, on the patient’s life history, and on the subjectivity of the patient as well as of the therapist - can help to identify and progressively eliminate those aspects of suffering and dehumanization that often have characterized psychiatric work in mental hospitals.
Keywords: Community psychiatry, deinstitutionalization, dehumanization, useless suffering, dynamic therapy in the community
Alberto Merini, Servizio pubblico e psicoterapia in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 2/2014, pp 324-328, DOI: 10.3280/PU2014-002007