This book explores the importance of the work of Franco Basaglia, a pioneer in the democratic psychiatry movement. Using a multidisciplinary approach combining philosophy and psychology this volume seeks to illuminate the past and create a clearer picture of Basaglia's impact in conceptualizing modern psychiatric care. It reviews the contemporary status of care and offers new insights for a critical evaluation of care that takes the psychiatric revolution to a new level.

• Highlights Basaglia's diagnostic and clinical practice
• Employs a multi-disciplinary approach
• Joins phenomenology and critical theory

Highlights Basaglia's diagnostic and clinical practice Employs a multi-disciplinary approach Joins phenomenology and critical theory

Autorentext

Dr. Bizzari Valeria Bizzari currently works at the Husserl Archives of the KU in Leuven. Her research interests involve phenomenology, philosophy of emotions and phenomenological psychopathology. From 2018 to October 2020, she worked at the Clinic for General Psychiatry, Universität Heidelberg with a project on neurodivergence. She spent visiting research periods at the Center for Subjectivity Research in Copenhagen, the Oxford Empathy Programme at University of Oxford, and Departments of Philosophy at the University of Wien, Salute-San Raffaele Milan and Macquarie University in Sydney.

Dr. Guareschi obtained his PhD at the University College Cork, Ireland, specializing in phenomenology. He also obtained both the national qualification for teaching Philosophy and Human Sciences and the Specialization as special education teacher in high school. He is currently affiliated to the Philosophy Department at the University of Parma (as an expert in Aesthetics) and is employed as a special education teacher at the Liceo delle Scienze Umane Albertina Sanvitale in Parma.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Basaglia's Heritage. Directions for a Necessary Revolution.- Section 1: BASAGLIA AND HIS PHILOSOPHY.- Chapter 2: Marx and Basaglia: Reforming Psychiatry and Society.- Chapter 3: Basaglia reader of Merleau-Ponty: the encounter with the other that revolutionizes the psychiatric institution.- Chapter 4: Madness, Reason, and the City.- Chapter 5: Madness According to Basaglia.- Section 2: BASAGLIA TODAY IN THE THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY.- Chapter 6: What has mental health remained 45 years after reform 180?.- Chapter 7: Understanding and completing the legacy of Basaglia and his collaborators.- Chapter 8: Application and effects of Italian Law 180, 'The Reform of Psychiatric Care'.- SECTION 3: BASAGLIA AS AN EDUCATOR.- Chapter 9: Basaglia educator? A dialogue between psychiatric anti-institutionalization in 1960s Italy and the free school movement in the United States.