File spoon-archives/marxism-psych.archive/marxism-psych_1997/marxism-psych.9711, message 3


Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 07:18:01 +0000
From: Chris Burford <cburford-AT-gn.apc.org>
Subject: M-PSY: Re: Greetings from Italy


Hello,

It is good to hear from Italy.

I think there are one or two subscribers from Italy, if you check the who
function to get a list of them.

>From the outside, I think what most people know of psychiatry in Italy is
Law 180.

I get the impression from periodic lectures that the successful
implementation of law 180 depended greatly on the degree of local political
support and social awareness. I assume the Communist Party of Italy, as it
then was, was prepared to vote in local assemblies for the allocation of
resources to aid this change.

So my question: is there a great variation in the regions of Italy in the
success of psichiatria democratica?

Alternative question: how can you deliver a safe mental health service if
you allowed to detain people for only a week?



Chris Burford

London.

PS I am a general psychiatrist.

Please do not apologise for your English. 500 years ago the lingua franca
was Latin. In another 500 years it might be - Chinese?




At 10:09 PM 11/23/97 +0100, you wrote:
>I am a 45 years old italian psychiatrist, working and living in Livorno,
>Toscana, Italy. I am thinking at myself as a marxist since I was 16 yers old.
>I have been working in the National Healt Service almost since the
>beginning of my career. I did a complete formation in relational family
>therapy, and 3 1\2 years of personal analysis.
>I am interested both in epistemological questions ( e.g. the relationship
>between object and subject, the consciousness and its historycal and social
>determination...), and in so called social psychology.
>Of course I am interested too in the analysis of public services in the
>mental health field.
>I thing that the prediction of the WHO is right, and for marxists it is
>obvious as long as the widness of the contraddictions is going to increase
>in the world: one can remember the profecy :"  or socialism or
>barbarousness". May be the increasing number of humans with mental illness
>is one of the many forms of this barbarousness.
>Excuse me for my english, I 'll try anyway to follow the discussion.
>
>
>Calogero Cannarozzo
>psichiatra, Livorno.
>
>
>_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
>"La fortuna e la natura... la non ti fa
>mai un bene che all'incontro non
>surga un male."
>(Niccol=F2 Machiavelli)
>
>
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>
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