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LA FABBRICA DELLA CURA MENTALE
Diario di uno psichiatra riluttante



2013
disponibile in formato ebook
176 pp.
EAN 9788896904411
 
Mental Health Factory
The Journal of a Reluctant Psychiatrist


"If the mental hospital was similar to a concentration camp, today SPDCs resemble factories. The head psychiatrist is the plant manager and has an assembly line to oversee. The psychiatrist is a technician who works at this human assembly line, and the patient is a biological machine that needs to be fixed not using words in a human relationship, but by means of drugs". Thirty five years ago the Italian parliament passed the law n. 180. Inspired by the psychiatrist Franco Basaglia, it was supposed to sanction the end of traditional mental institutions and of the barbaric therapeutic practices that took place in them. Piero Cipriano, our reluctant psychiatrist, works in a SPDC (Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura), the sort of facility that was established by the new law. His journal has the evocative language of a literary work, and the informative content of a non-fiction book.
Through his pitiless gaze we learn that the very facilities that were devised to ensure a humane treatment of psychiatric crises have ended up in reproducing the same flaws of the previous institutions. Drawing from a series of case-studies, Cipriano describes the arbitrary and bureaucratic procedures that still shape the relationship between mental health professionals and their mentally ill subjects. Such procedures, in turn, generate the paradoxical effect whereby the real dangerous individuals are those who are supposed to ensure a humane treatment of mental illness.

Piero Cipriano (1968) is a doctor, a psychiatrist, a psychotherapist, and an ethnopsychiatric. After workingin various mental health departments from Friuli to Campania, in the last few years he is working in Rome in a SPDC health centre.
eventi
Milano, 29-30 novembre 2013 - Appuntamenti elčuthera a Meglio libri che male accompagnati - Circolo Arci Scighera
Fienze, 13 dicembre 2013 - La fabbrica della cura mentale - Biblioteca delle Oblate - Firenze
Roma, 5 dicembre 2013 - La fabbrica della cura mentale - Museo della mente
Marghera, 18 gennaio 2013 - La fabbrica della cura mentale - Ateneo degli imperfetti
Verona, 17 gennaio 2014 - La fabbrica della cura mentale - Circolo Pink
Pisa, 25 gennaio 2014 - La fabbrica della cura mentale - Cineclub Arsenale
Trieste, 21 febbraio 2014 - La fabbrica della cura mentale - Libreria KNULP
Cesena, 9 maggio 2014 - La fabbrica della cura mentale - Circolo anarchico sole e baleno
Sassari, 6 maggio 2014 - La fabbrica della cura mentale - Il corpo politico - Universitā di sassari
Modena, 10 maggio 2014 - contro la violenza psichiatrica - spazio autogestito la scintilla
Pistoia, 25 settembre 2014 - La fabbrica della cura mentale - Fondazione Luigi Tronci
Arcore, 20 dicembre 2014 - La fabbrica della cura mentale - Arci Blob
Bergamo, 21 dicembre 2014 - La fabbrica della cura mentale - Kascina Autogestita Popolare
Monserrato, 26 febbraio 2015 - La fabbrica della cura mentale - Casa della cultura