The practice of change

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Author/s Peppe Dell’Acqua
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/1
Language Italian Pages 6 P. 31-36 File size 82 KB
DOI 10.3280/PU2023-001004
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It is argued that "the crisis of psychiatry and of the Italian Law no. 180/1978" are words and def-initions that cover with intolerable superficiality a real and deeper crisis of psychiatry. The roots of the change that took place in Italy between the 1960s and the 1970s are the consequence of a deep and distressing questioning about the various forms of psychiatry rooted in positivism. Ad-herence to the criticism of scientific positivism has determined, in the work of Franco Basaglia and others, a tumultuous and brave opening towards a search, a discovery, and a valorization of the subject. What happened and continues to happen in Italy has influenced and conditioned our way of seeing and meeting "the other" all over the world. In 1978 the Italian Law no. 180/1978 did not close the mental asylums but gave back to the mentally ill the rights and the meanings of being citizens. The deinstitutionalization process can only start from here.

Keywords: Crisis of psychiatry; Change in Community Mental Health Services; History of Italian psychiatry; Franco Basaglia; Meeting with the psychiatric patient

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Peppe Dell’Acqua, La pratica del cambiamento in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 1/2023, pp 31-36, DOI: 10.3280/PU2023-001004