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Franco Basaglia


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THE DISTRUCTION OF THE MENTAL HOSPITAL AS A PLACE OF INSTITUTIONALISATION
Thoughts caused by personal experience with the open door system and part time service

First international congress of social psychiatry
London 1964

"In 1925, a manifesto by French artists who signed themselves. "La revolution surrealiste", addressed to
the directors of "looneybin" ended thus: "Tomorrow morning, at visiting time, when without any
lexicon you try to communicate with these men, you will be able to remember and recognize that, in
comparison with them, you are superior in only one way: force"........................



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TRAINING COURSE FOR PSYCHIATRIC OPERATORS

1979

Two lessons by Franco Basaglia with discussion


Open and closed institutions





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