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Italian psychiatry – 25 years of change

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Angelo Fioritti ,
Mariano Bassi  and
Giovanni de Girolamo
Angelo Fioritti
Affiliation:
Direttore Programma Salute Mentale e Dipendenze Patologiche, Azienda USL Rimini, via Coriano 38, 47900 Rimini, Italy, email afioritti@auslrn.net; Elected President of the Italian Society for Addiction Psychiatry (Società Italiana Psichiatria delle Dipendenze – SIPD)
Mariano Bassi
Affiliation:
Direttore Dipartimento Salute Mentale, Azienda USL Città di Bologna; Vice President of the Italian Society of Psychiatry (Società Italiana di Psichiatria – SIP)
Giovanni de Girolamo
Affiliation:
Dipartimento Salute Mentale, Azienda USL Città di Bologna; formerly responsible for the National Mental Health Project, National Institute of Health (Progetto Nazionale Salute Mentale, Istituto Superiore di Sanità), Rome
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Italian psychiatry is probably more debated than known in the international arena. Law 180 of 1978, which introduced a radical community psychiatry system, has drawn worldwide attention and debate, with comments ranging from the enthusiastic to the frankly disparaging (Mosher, 1982; Jones et al, 1991). More recently, this interest was marked by a well-attended symposium ‘Lessons Learned from Italian Reforms in Psychiatry’ held at the 2003 annual meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Edinburgh.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , October 2003 , pp. 14 - 17
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