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The Deinstitutionalization Movement in Italy: Ideological Thrust to Cultural Error

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Lola Romanucci-ross
Lola Romanucci-ross
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University of California, San Diego
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Abstract

The Basaglia movement in Italian psychiatry is described and analyzed in several contexts: the historical, the cultural, and the “practical” in terms of outcomes. Those who began the movement of democratic psychiatry grasped interesting elements of “critical theory”: the definitions of madness, power structures, and medical discourse itself. A backward look at the sea change, however, reveals states and rates of dysfunction that disappoint and indicate that political ideology divorced from cultural awareness can often harden the opposition.

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Special Section: The Assessment of Psychiatry
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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , Fall 1996 , pp. 634 - 643
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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