Borgna: “Basaglia’s lesson 100 years after his birth: he restored dignity to patients”

Forty years after the approval of the psychiatric care reform law, desired and implemented by Franco Basaglia, one cannot help but reflect on the theoretical and practical foundations of his speech. The premises for the revolution, which allowed him to radically change the way of being of psychiatry, were (I would say) these: putting aside every apparent somatological certainty, the importance of introspection and identification with lived experiences and states of soul of people, whether sick or not, the importance of human relationships between those who care and those who are treated, respect for the dignity and humanity of every form of mental suffering, and the awareness that treatment in psychiatry can only take place in the context of…