Italian Psychiatric Care

The Deinstitutionalization Movement in Italy: Ideological Thrust to Cultural Error

“…The reform of psychiatry left important therapeutic categories to the discretion of individual services; these defined for themselves what would be included in their assignments and what would be excluded. Alcoholism, drug abuse, vagrancies, or homelessness might or might not be involved (39,51). Still, in regions where more general hospital psychiatric beds (SPDCs) were provided, there was less of an increase or even a decrease in suicide rates (Annuari delle Statistiche, SanitarieY.…”