Democratic Psychiatry

Democratic Psychiatry (Italian: Psichiatria Democratica) is an Italian real society,^[1] as well as a movement for liberation of the ill and weak from segregation in mental hospitals,^[2]^: 61 by pushing for the Italian psychiatric reform.^[3]^: 95 The movement was political in nature but not antipsychiatric in the sense in which this term is usually used in English.^[3]^: 95 Democratic Psychiatry called for radical changes in the practice and theory of psychiatry and strongly attacked the way society managed mental illness.^[3]^: 95 The movement was essential in the birth of the reform Basaglia Law of 1978.^[3]^: 95

^ "Società Italiana di Psichiatria Democratica: Sito Ufficiale". Retrieved 30 September 2010.
^ Giannelli, Alberto (2007). Follia e psichiatria: crisi di una relazione. FrancoAngeli. p. 61. ISBN 978-88-464-8198-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Fioritti A.; Lo Russo L.; Melega V. (January 1997). "Reform said or done? The case of Emilia-Romagna within the Italian psychiatric context". American Journal of Psychiatry. 154 (1): 94–98. doi:10.1176/ajp.154.1.94. PMID 8988965.

[PD-1] "Società Italiana di Psichiatria Democratica: Sito Ufficiale". Retrieved 30 September 2010.

[Giannelli-2] Giannelli, Alberto (2007). Follia e psichiatria: crisi di una relazione. FrancoAngeli. p. 61. ISBN 978-88-464-8198-6.

[Fioritti-3] Fioritti A.; Lo Russo L.; Melega V. (January 1997). "Reform said or done? The case of Emilia-Romagna within the Italian psychiatric context". American Journal of Psychiatry. 154 (1): 94–98. doi:10.1176/ajp.154.1.94. PMID 8988965.

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