The Psychiatric Prejudice

In this book, rich in 'documentary evidence', Antonucci can prove, rather than just theorise, what the 'psychiatric prejudice' leads to: a conviction without trial, defence or appeal.

"It's no use attacking the mental institution", says Antonucci, "if the attack isn't delivered to the psychiatric judgment which is at its foundation, showing its scientific insubstantiality. Until we abolish what is de facto a prejudice, the reality of psychiatric segregation will continue to flourish inside and outside the asylum's walls". From "the institution denied" to the negation of psychiatry. Indeed, this is the central thesis of Antonucci's book: metal illness is not an illness and psychiatry is not a science. A strong, final claim that may sound incredible if it wasn't based on 250 certainties, as many as Imola's asylum patients that were freed from psychiatric segregation. There is no alternative to psychiatry other than its abolition. Antonucci's use of personal experiences does not cater to a penchant for autobiography, but to invite the reader to look at the reality of things without prejudice, and to come and meet the men and women who've been subjected to psychiatric treatment; personal life experience is there to base criticism on real-life stories, on tangible and irrefutable facts.

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