The “Franco Basaglia” convention passed off on Tuesday 7 May 2024. Freedom is therapeutic” within the Aula Magna of the Department of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, on the event of the centenary of the start of Franco Basaglia. A big place, that of the Department of Letters and Philosophy, the place yesterday we talked about rights, care and freedom.
Professor Alessandro Zuccari, protector of the creative, historic and cultural heritage, opened the convention by recalling that speaking about Franco Basaglia and the work of Reform is vital, because it means welcoming a cultural, social and political dedication by following up on the artwork. 3 of the Constitution. Zuccari quotes one in every of Basaglia’s best-known phrases, underlining how vulnerability belongs to the human situation, and the way care is critical for each individual.
Madness is a human situation. Madness exists in us and is current as purpose is. The drawback is that society, to be referred to as civil, ought to settle for each purpose and insanity. (Franco Basaglia)
The occasion continued with the screening of the documentary “E tu slegalo” (50 min) by director Maurizio Sciarra. “People have to know what psychological sickness is,” Basaglia’s voice bursts into the Aula Magna. A touching projection that provides voice to the various protagonists and witnesses of the lengthy work of deinstitutionalisation, ranging from the customers of the companies, as much as the nurses and psychiatrists, and to the voice of Basaglia himself and his spouse Franca Ongaro who return a number of instances to underline the significance of dedication to the protection of individuals’s rights.
The historical past of the asylum shouldn’t be forgotten, in addition to the historical past of the work that restored folks’s rights [legge 180/1978]. It is a narrative that begins in 1961 with the arrival of Basaglia in Gorizia, the place there are 650 internees. Franca Ongaro, within the documentary, explains how on the time of the asylum the 1904 regulation was a regulation of public order, and that to work within the asylum you didn’t must be a psychiatrist. The asylum was unknown, it was a closed place.
Degraded sick folks with drool, soiled and undressed locked within the dormitories. (Michele Zanetti, president of the province in Trieste from 1970 to 1977)
Anyone who has been in a psychological hospital remembers the odor of dying: one thing to be destroyed, as Basaglia said on the first Social Psychiatry convention in 1964.
The asylum was unknown, there was a horrible odor and it gave the notion of absolute lack of hope, locations that would not be crossed. The concept that the asylum must be destroyed was a response to one thing unacceptable. (Roberto Mezzina, psychiatrist)
The testimonies of people that have lived the expertise of hardship are there to characterize the redemption and effectiveness of excellent practices, with their lives which, due to regulation 180, and the work of many, has put an finish to imprisonment, isolation and oppression, and using devices of torture resembling electroshock and lobotomy. The absence of a relationship destroys life and kills hope, as does the stigma of the prognosis.
When I learn schizophrenia, I stated sufficient, I’m carried out residing. (Elena Cerkvenič, utente dei servizi)
Professor Renato Foschi, full professor of History of psychological sciences and History and strategies of scientific intervention, remembers how by regulation the “insane” misplaced all rights, and the way you will need to underline this truth in order that the cultural battle is sustained and isn’t runs the chance of going again.
She says she’s not loopy. (from a medical document from the San Giovanni archive in Trieste)
The return of at present’s psychiatry to the concept of utilizing electroshock once more is a critical incontrovertible fact that should make us mirror on the criticality of our contemporaneity and of the therapy system.
The theme of care returns within the morning and lends itself to many meals for thought on at present’s wants and the urgency of returning to moral coaching of operators, at present “educated at a distance”, says Peppe Dell’Acqua.
The remedy consists within the relationship, in the potential for having a house, and a job. (Massimo Magnano, Sant’Egidio neighborhood)
There are many voices within the documentary and within the morning that carry the viewers again to the necessity to mirror on points which might be nonetheless unsurpassed at present, resembling that of technicality and the shortage of relationships, as said by Peppe Dell’Acqua, collaborator of Basaglia and former director of the previous psychiatric hospital San Giovanni di Trieste, who narrates his expertise of the deconstruction of the psychological hospital, telling of these days, of the issue but in addition of the significance of “constructing areas of freedom and accountability”.
Putting the phrases of therapy again into circulation, the significance of the connection, of the assembly, leaving much less house for prognosis is Dell’Acqua’s invitation, wanting on the effectiveness of what has been carried out. An invitation which can be a denunciation of that a part of politics which in Trieste, and never solely in Trieste, is destroying what has been achieved in 50 lengthy years. “It takes a very long time to construct and a short while to destroy.” Operators try to withstand, nevertheless it’s not simple at present.
The convention ends with a dedication proposal: Peppe Dell’Acqua talks in regards to the #180benecomune marketing campaign, designed along with the APS Mental Health Forum, to relaunch the values of the Reform and to carry operators, female and male volunteers, relations and associations into dialogue to construct good practices.
Not a lot is understood in regards to the 180, concludes Maurizio Sciarra, it’s important to reveal its worth.
The convention ends with the promise that at present’s occasion is only a starting, and with the will to satisfy in Rome at a convention, in direction of the autumn, the place we’ll meet in giant numbers, particularly with younger college students and operators and operators who made their absence felt at this convention. This truth demonstrates the necessity to return to speaking about Basaglia and care, so that there’s nonetheless a future for care.