Basaglia was always well connected, and his wife Franca who worked closely with him on all his writing went on to become a National Senator. The local communist administration in Trieste supported him strongly as he developed his services between 1971 and 1978.
What is the Basaglia Law?
The 1978 law was the culmination of 20 years of ground-breaking work by the charismatic psychiatrist Franco Basaglia. Basaglia established his reputation reforming the asylum in Gorizia in the 1960s, before moving in 1971 to the Adriatic port of Trieste.
What is Basaglia’s view on madness?
Basaglia insisted that much in the inveterate stereotypes of madness was actually the consequence of institutional conditions, but not a real danger which the walls of a mental hospital had been required to contain.:65
What is the history of the Basaglia controversy?
The first mention of Basaglia in an Anglophone scientific journal was in 1972 in the Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal in Sir Martin Roth’s presidential address “Psychiatry and its critics”, in which Basaglia was simply lumped in with the other anti-psychiatrists.
