The man who closed the asylums : Franco Basaglia and the revolution in mental health care / John Foot.

Repubblica dei matti. English

London ; New York : Verso, 2015.

xi, 404 pages ; 25 cm

Includes index.

Translation of La repubblica dei matti: Franco Basaglia e la psichiatria radicale in Italia, 1961-1978 / John Foot. 2015.

Gorizia : a revolution at the edge of Europe -- Anti-psychiatry, critical psychiatry, movements and working utopias -- Reading Gorizia : sources and narratives -- Basaglia and the British : a missing translation? -- Building the team : the first équipe in Gorizia, 1961-69 -- Manicomio = lager : history and politics of an analogy -- Gorizia : the therapeutic community -- Il picchio : the voice of the patients and the "archive of the revolution" -- Anti-psychiatry, Italian style -- One of the wonders of the world : the general meeting -- The genesis of the negated institution -- The negated institution : the "Bible" of 1968 -- Gorizia and 1968, Gorizia as 1968 -- The incident -- I giardini di abele and morire di classe : Gorizia on television and the role of photography -- The end of an era : Basaglia leaves Gorizia -- Perugia : the "perfect" example, 1965-78 -- Parma : the gas-meter reader and the total institution -- Out into the territory : Reggio Emilia, 1969-75 -- Gorizia : the second équipe, 1969-72 -- Arezzo : the Gorizian diaspora -- The end of the asylum : Trieste, 1971-79 -- The 180 law : history, myth and reality.

Includes bibliographical references and index.