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From: Russell Pearson <R.Pearson-AT-art.derby.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:05:04 +0100
Subject: Re: M-PSY: Re: Greetings from Italy



Hi m-psy,
On a bit of a tangent here and apologies for this, but perhaps Foucault was
right on the connection between the clinic and inacarceration.
I was alarmed to read in one of the British papers the other day, that Negri
is rotting in an Italian jail for political crimes (having been charged
under laws passed under facsism). Can any Italian subscribers enlighten me
further on this and provide any info on campaigns to get him released?

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