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Franco Basaglia

フランコ・バザーリア

Furanko Bazaria

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1924-03-11 （San Polo, Venice, Italy）
Died
1980-08-29 （San Polo, Venice, Italy） age 56
Nationality
Italy
Languages
Italian
Residence History
Venice → Gorizia → Trieste

Career

Occupations
psychiatrist, neurologist, professor, disability advocate, psychiatric reformer
Active Years
1949-1980
Affiliations
University of Padua, University of Parma, Gorizia Mental Hospital, Trieste Mental Hospital
Memberships
Founder of Democratic Psychiatry
Influenced By
Karl Jaspers, Ludwig Binswanger, Eugène Minkowski, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger
Influenced
Giovanna Russo, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Rita Levi-Montalcini

Education

University of Padua
Medical School
Degree: 医学学位
Period: 1940年代後半-1949
Year of Graduation: 1949
Country: Italy
Trained in psychiatry at the same university

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

L'istituzione negata

1968 Psychiatric Critique

Documents the changes at Gorizia psychiatric hospital and analyzes anti-institutional debate

Institutional NegationDemocratic PsychiatryDeinstitutionalization

Bibliography

  • Che cos'è la psichiatria?
  • L'istituzione negata
  • Morire di classe
  • Il malato artificiale
  • La maggioranza deviante

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Phenomenological ApproachAnti-Institutional CritiqueSocial Exclusion Critique
Recurring Motifs
Social Construction of MadnessInstitutional OppressionRecovery of Freedom

Legacy

Father of Italian psychiatric reform. Basaglia Law (Law 180) abolished mental hospitals. Most influential Italian psychiatrist of the 20th century

Archives

  • Trieste Mental Health Department Archive

In Popular Culture

  • Several films about Basaglia

Quotes

  • Mental illness is the consequence of exclusion processes
    Source: Various works (1970)

Trivia

  • Founder of Democratic Psychiatry
  • Praised by Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini