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) > > > --- from list marxism-psych-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > --- from list marxism-psych-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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