The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care by John Foot

The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care

John Foot

424 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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