Journal title PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Author/s Pietro Pellegrini
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/4
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 623-634 File size 74 KB
DOI 10.3280/PU2024-004007
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Franco Basaglia’s experience at the Psychiatric Hospital of Colorno (Parma, Italy) lasted less than a year, from October 1970 to September 1971, and took place between the period of Gorizia and that of Trieste. His opinion on the Parma experience was varied and generally negative. The anal-ysis of the documents and recent testimonies of those who worked with Basaglia in Colorno, such as the psychiatrist Luciano Carrino, allow us to say that “the whole psychiatric revolution was carried out in Parma, not in Trieste”. The method of emptying the mental hospital from the inside through discharges to apartments and farms, the involvement of patients, communities and, when possible, families indicate the path through which the closing of the asylums can be achieved. A great composite liberation movement was created made up of mental health profes-sionals, patients, citizens, students, industrial executives, and clergies. A method based on hu-manity and ethics, that does not tolerate indifference and injustice towards other people, came to light. In Colorno, Basaglia’s disillusionment with politics and the end of his expectations of achieving an academic career also become evident. At the same time, a position against all kinds of total institutions emerged; this position went beyond mental hospitals, and included orphanag-es, facilities for the disabled and the elderly, and even prisoners. Franco Basaglia and Mario Tommasini, a politician who was very close to Basaglia in Parma, shared this political position on power and society.
Keywords: Franco Basaglia; Psychiatric hospital of Colorno (Parma, Italy); Deinstitutionalization; Italian Law no. 180/1978; Liberation movements
Pietro Pellegrini, Rileggere l’esperienza di Franco Basaglia a Colorno (Parma) in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 4/2024, pp 623-634, DOI: 10.3280/PU2024-004007