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An introduction to the life and work of the radical psychiatrist, Franco Basaglia
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This is a detailed introduction to the life and work of the radical psychiatrist, the Italian Franco Basaglia, whose work inside and outside psychiatric hospitals in the 1960s and the 1970s led to the famous 'Basaglia law' in 1978 which eventually closed down all such institutions in Italy.
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This page is a summary of: Franco Basaglia and the radical psychiatry movement in Italy, 1961–78, Critical and Radical Social Work, August 2014, Policy Press,
DOI: 10.1332/204986014x14002292074708.
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