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Translation of La repubblica dei matti: Franco Basaglia e la psichiatria radicale in Italia, 1961-1978 / John Foot. 2015.
List of contents
part IGorizia, 1961-68
1 Gorizia: A Revolution at the Edge of Europe
2 Anti-psychiatry, Critical Psychiatry, Movements and Working Utopias
3 Reading Gorizia: Sources and Narratives
4 Basaglia and the British: A Missing Translation?
5 Building the Team: The First Équipe in Gorizia, 1961–69
6 Manicomio = Lager: History and Politics of an Analogy
7 Gorizia: The Therapeutic Community
8 Il Picchio: The Voice of the Patients and the ‘Archive of the Revolution’
9 Anti-psychiatry, Italian Style
10 One of the Wonders of the World: The General Meeting
11 The Genesis of The Negated Institution
12 Th e Negated Institution: The ‘Bible’ of 1968
13 Gorizia and 1968, Gorizia
as 1968
14 The Incident
15 I giardini di Abele and Morire di classe:Gorizia on Television and the Role of Photography
16 The End of an Era: Basaglia Leaves Gorizia
part IIBeyond Gorizia: The Long March
17 Perugia: The ‘Perfect’ Example, 1965–78
18 Parma: The Gas-Meter Reader and the Total Institution
19 Reggio Emilia: Out into the Territory, 1969–75
20 Gorizia: The Second Équipe, 1969–72
21 Arezzo: The Gorizian Diaspora
22 Trieste: The End of the Asylum, 1971–79
23 The 180 Law: History, Myth and Reality
About the author
John Foot is Professor of Modern Italian History in the School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol. He has published several books on sports and contemporary Italian history. He writes a blog for the Italian magazine Internazionale and has written for the Guardian, the Independent on Sunday, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, and History Today.
