Democratic Psychiatry

Democratic Psychiatry (Italian: Psichiatria Democratica) is an Italian association, as well as a movement for liberation of the ill and weak from segregation in mental hospitals,: 61  by pushing for the Italian psychiatric reform.: 95  The movement was political in nature but not antipsychiatric in the sense in which this term is usually used in English.: 95  Democratic Psychiatry called for radical changes in the practice and theory of psychiatry and strongly attacked the way society managed mental illness.: 95  The movement was essential in the birth of the reform Basaglia Law of 1978.: 95 

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