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The 1978 Italian Mental Health Law – A Personal Evaluation: A Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kathleen Jones ,
Greg Wilkinson  and
T. K. J. Craig
Kathleen Jones
Affiliation:
Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD
Greg Wilkinson
Affiliation:
Subdepartment of Psychological Medicine in North Wales, University of Wales College of Medicine, North Wales Hospital, Denbigh, Clwyd LL16 5SS
T. K. J. Craig
Affiliation:
United Medical and Dental Schools (St Thomas Hospital), Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EH
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Abstract

“The author discusses the sociopsychiatric consequences of the 1978 Italian mental health law. He also reviews the international scientific ideas that led up to it. The sociopolitical psychiatric views of the late Franco Basaglia, pioneer of the change in the mental health system of the Italian Republic, are described. Statistical reports and critical analyses are reported. Objective data, based on the author's personal experience as a practising psychiatrist in Rome, Italy, from 1969 to 1987, are given.”

Type
The Current Literature
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue 4 , October 1991 , pp. 556 - 561
Copyright
Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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