Straitjackets, lobotomies, electroshock therapy: this was the asylum before the Basaglia law. Then dialogue and respect took the place of violence, blurring the precarious distinction between the “normality” of those who were supposed to treat patients and the “madness” of those who were hospitalized.
Giulia Lazzarini
Straitjackets, lobotomies, electroshock therapy: this was the asylum before the Basaglia law. Then dialogue and respect took the place of violence, blurring the precarious distinction between the “normality” of those who were supposed to treat patients and the “madness” of those who were hospitalized.
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