The Man Who Closed the Asylums - Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext The first comprehensive account of Franco Basaglia's revolutionary approach to psychiatry and mental health. A gripping account of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the 20th century. Zusammenfassung When the wind of the 1960s blew through the world of psychiatry

Product details

• Authors: John Foot, Foot John
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.2015
• EAN: 9781781689264
• ISBN: 978-1-78168-926-4
• No. of pages: 424
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 243 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; MEDICAL / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, Mental health services