HoPSIG Webinar | ‘L’Istituzione Negata’ - Franco Basaglia (1924 -1980) Centenary commemoration: Life, Ideas and International Legacy

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20Mar

Afternoon Online Event

Timings 2.00PM - 5.00PM
Location Online
CPD Up to three hours subject to peer approval
Non-member£89
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Higher Trainee£51
Core Trainee£34
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HoPSIG Webinar | ‘L’Istituzione Negata’ - Franco Basaglia (1924 -1980) Centenary commemoration: Life, Ideas and International Legacy

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‘L’Istituzione Negata [The institution denied]’ titles a text emblematic of Franco Basaglia’s radical thinking around deinstitutionalisation encompassing not just the closure of mental institutions but also the transformation of received conceptualisations of psychiatry. This webinar will commemorate the centenary of the birth of Basaglia, whose ideas about ‘institutions’ in mental health became influential in Italy, Europe, and South America in the 1970s yet were equally neglected in the English-speaking world. 

Adopting the motto ‘Freedom is therapy’, Basaglia with supporters in the Psichiatria Democratica movement influenced profound change in mental health services in Italy, The passage of the controversial Law 180 in 1978, often referred to as Basaglia’s Law, effectively prohibited the admission of new patients to mental hospitals. Community mental health services, general hospital psychiatric units and non-hospital residential units subsequently provided for all but mentally disordered offenders. The post-Basaglian experience in Italy and South America is complex and contested and will be the focus of this webinar together with the historical rejection of his ideas by British psychiatry. 

HoPSIG Webinar  ‘L’Istituzione Negata’ - Franco Basaglia (1924 -1980) Centenary commemoration: Life, Ideas and International Legacy
 
Time Programme
2.00pm - 2.05pm Welcome and Introduction
2.05pm - 2.30pmThe Life and Times of Franco Basaglia, 1924-1980.
  Professor John Foot, Professor of Modern Italian History, University of Bristol, UK.
2.30pm - 2.55pmFRANCO BASAGLIA for contemporary psychiatry and society, in the centenary of his birth
  Dr. Paolo F. Peloso, Director of the District Mental Health Unit of Middle West, Local Health Agency of Genoa, Italy
2.55pm - 3.20pm"Is freedom (still) therapy?".
  Dr Angelo Fioritti, Medical Director, Department of Mental Health, AUSL Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
3.20pm - 3.35pmDiscussion/ Q&A
3.35pm - 3.50pmBreak
3.50pm - 4.15pm“Basaglia's impact and legacy in Latin American psychiatry and the global mental health movement"
  Professor José Miguel Caldas de Almeida, Head of the Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health, Comprehensive Health Research Centre, Lisbon Nova Medical School.
4.15pm - 4.40pmThe UK cold-shoulder - Why was Basaglia rejected in the UK, and what were the consequences?
  Professor Tom Burns, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK.
4.40pm - 5.00pmDiscussion/Q&A        Chair and Speakers

The speakers for this event will be John Foot (Univ. of Bristol), Angelo Fioritti (Bologna), Paolo Peloso (Genoa), José Caldas de Almeida (Univ. NOVA, Lisbon), Tom Burns (Univ. of Oxford) and George Ikkos, Chair (London).

If you are an academic or non-medical student, please contact sigs@rcpsych.ac.uk, or call  020 8618 4256 to book your ticket at the relevant rate.

This afternoon webinar will be hosted on Zoom. It is an online only event. 

The event will be recorded and the recording will be shared with attendees who have purchased a ticket for the webinar. Recordings are available to view for three months after the event.

Please read our terms and conditions before making your booking.

For further information, please contact:

Email: sigs@rcpsych.ac.uk

Contact Name: Catriona Grant

Event Location

Location: Online