The man who closed the asylums
Subtitle: Franco Basaglia and the revolution in mental health care
By: John Foot
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781781689264; 9781781689288; 9781781689271
Subjects: Psychiatry; Psychiatric Hospitals; History
Work titles: Repubblica dei matti
Notes: Includes index.

Translation of La repubblica dei matti: Franco Basaglia e la psichiatria radicale in Italia, 1961-1978 / John Foot. 2015.
Table of contents: title: Gorizia : a revolution at the edge of Europe; title: Anti-psychiatry, critical psychiatry, movements and working utopias; title: Reading Gorizia : sources and narratives; title: Basaglia and the British : a missing translation?; title: Building the team : the first équipe in Gorizia, 1961-69; title: Manicomio = lager : history and politics of an analogy; title: Gorizia : the therapeutic community; title: Il picchio : the voice of the patients and the "archive of the revolution"; title: Anti-psychiatry, Italian style; title: One of the wonders of the world : the general meeting; title: The genesis of the negated institution; title: The negated institution : the "Bible" of 1968; title: Gorizia and 1968, Gorizia as 1968; title: The incident; title: I giardini di abele and morire di classe : Gorizia on television and the role of photography; title: The end of an era : Basaglia leaves Gorizia; title: Perugia : the "perfect" example, 1965-78; title: Parma : the gas-meter reader and the total institution; title: Out into the territory : Reggio Emilia, 1969-75; title: Gorizia : the second équipe, 1969-72; title: Arezzo : the Gorizian diaspora; title: The end of the asylum : Trieste, 1971-79; title: The 180 law : history, myth and reality.