Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care
by
John Foot
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
When the wind of the 1960s blew through the world of psychiatry
In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia’s own wartime...