Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Alberto De Bernardi
Publishing Year 2018 Issue 2018/287
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 156-174 File size 144 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC2018-287007
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The pervasive nature of social control set up by the Fascist regime represented a break away from the "normalization" instruments that characterized 19th century psychiatry and were used by the Italian state after unification. This article analyzes how this new approach influenced the methods and objectives assigned by the regime to mental hospitals and psychiatry, especially once they were integrated into the totalitarian machine of social control. It argues that the regime used both tools as part of its plan to completely control Italian society and make the fight against forms of political opposition integral to its eugenic struggle against the "decline of the race". During the 1930s, therefore, Fascist biopolitics became part and parcel of the social control policies carried out by the regime.
Keywords: Fascism, Biopolitics, Mental Hospitals, Social control
Alberto De Bernardi, Psichiatria e potere nel fascismo italiano in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 287/2018, pp 156-174, DOI: 10.3280/IC2018-287007